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New materials are powering the battery revolution

  • Written by Veronica Augustyn, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University
Research is finding better ways to make batteries both big and small.Romaset/Shutterstock.com

There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people. Nearly all of them are powered by rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are the single most important component enabling the portable electronics revolution of the past few decades. None...

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