Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world's oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today. But it also condenses and swells in response to ...
Dry battery electrodes promise a cleaner way to build the lithium-ion cells that power electric vehicles and grid storage.
A discarded plastic bottle may soon become more than waste. Plastic waste to battery graphite innovation reveals how ...
The ordinary graphite in pencil lead is proving to be surprisingly multifaceted at the microscale. In a study published in ...
A plastic bottle tossed into a recycling bin could one day help power an electric vehicle, smartphone or renewable energy ...
Penn State researchers have developed a way to turn discarded plastic bottles into battery-grade graphite for use in electric ...
A spray-dried composite containing 15% nano-silicon and just 1% single-walled carbon nanotubes retained 95.3% of its capacity after 100 charge-discharge cycles, compared with 68% for a carbon nanotube ...
Regardless of the cathode chemistry, be it LFP or NCM-based, the majority of commercial batteries rely on graphite as their primary anode material. Battery-grade graphite can be sourced either ...
Researchers at Penn State have discovered a method to convert waste plastic bottles into synthetic graphite, a key component ...