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How do lithium-ion batteries work?

  • Written by Robert Masse, Ph.D. Student in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Lithium-ion batteries power lots of different kinds of devices.Transport Canada

The smartphone era is only just over a decade old, but the pocket-sized computers at the heart of that societal transformation are only really possible because of another technology: lithium-ion batteries.

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