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Find innovative solutions for design engineering challenges in battery management systems. Discover the latest battery system applications in wearables, autonomous vehicles, and other electronic systems.

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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Lithium batteries made using this electrode type could be much safer than typical lithium metal-based batteries.
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Briefs: Energy
Using ceramic material and graphene, the toughness of solid-state lithium-ion batteries can be doubled.
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Briefs: Energy
Organic Lithium-Powered Batteries
These batteries are more environmentally friendly while retaining performance, stability, and storage capacity.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A neural stimulator, a battery testing device, and a strain sensor.
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Question of the Week: Aerospace
Will Electric Aircraft Take-Off in Everyday Aviation?
In May of 2020, the “eCaravan” aircraft, powered by a 750-horsepower electric motor and more than 2000 pounds of lithium-ion batteries, flew to a height of over 2500 feet, at over 100 miles per hour. The all-electric airplane was built by magniX, Seattle-based electric propulsion firm A...
Products: RF & Microwave Electronics
Photoelectric sensors, cable connectors, power monitors, and USB3 cameras.
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Briefs: Aerospace
This method creates a thin-film electrode for a bio-nanobattery.
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Briefs: Energy
Solid-State Lithium Battery
This thin film battery can be used for on-package power in mass market electric vehicles (EVs) and electronic devices.
Briefs: Energy
Scientists have reinvented a 26,000-year-old manufacturing process into an innovative approach to fabricating ceramic materials widely used in batteries, electronics, and extreme environments....
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Briefs: Energy
These can replace rechargeable lithium-ion batteries commonly used in robotics, power tools, and grid-scale energy storage.
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INSIDER: Energy
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have demonstrated how to overcome a persistent challenge to potassium metal batteries — dendrites. Their new battery...
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INSIDER: Energy
Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry. New technology developed by scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and Xi'an...
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Technology Leaders: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Bio-interfacing and biodegradable flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) devices can help tackle some of the world’s great challenges including environmental degradation and food scarcity.
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Facility Focus: Robotics, Automation & Control
Rensselaer Engineering focuses on solving the “grand challenges” facing humanity.
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Technology Leaders: Internet of Things
Low-power radio design is enabling new connected IoT products for consumer, commercial, industrial, and medical markets.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
The Los Angeles, CA-based company Nanotech Energy is using graphene to prevent thermal runaway and create a non-flammable battery.
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Briefs: Lighting
The AI system can help shorten the time required for 2D material-based electronics to be ready for consumer devices.
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Briefs: Transportation
The method slashes battery testing times — a key barrier to longer-lasting, faster-charging batteries for electric vehicles.
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Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Will 'Metal-Air Scavengers' Power Vehicles and Robots?
Penn Engineering researchers have introduced a "metal-air scavenger" vehicle, which gets energy not from a battery, but from breaking chemical bonds in the aluminum surface it travels over. The technology, which works like both a battery and an energy harvester, has 13 times more energy density...
Blog: Test & Measurement
A Berkeley Lab system provides a much more sensitive probe of the chemical state of battery electrodes, especially when the battery is operated under high capacity mode.
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Briefs: Materials
The coating could make lightweight lithium metal batteries safe and long-lasting for the next generation of electric vehicles.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Fuse devices enable circuit safety in high-power applications, such as motion control and alternative energy generation, in addition to electric vehicles.
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Blog: Transportation
A reader asks, "What market drivers need to occur for electric vehicles to be considered an acceptable replacement for vehicles with internal combustion engines?"
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Question of the Week: Energy
Will We Ever Recharge Electric Batteries As Quickly As We Get Gas?
Stanford University researchers have developed a machine learning-based method that cuts battery testing times by 98 percent. The team says that their A.I. technique could lead to a future where an electric battery is recharged in the time it takes to stop at a gas station. Watch...
Articles: Test & Measurement
Increase battery life and reduce data loads with an analog-first processing architecture.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Thermal cameras, testing software, an ion air knife, and more.
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Articles: Connectivity
Your preview of one of the largest technical mobility events of the year.
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Articles: Materials
Biodegradable batteries, solid-state ultracapacitors, and infrared camouflage.
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