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Articles: Energy
Making EV Batteries Truly Sustainable: Where to Focus and What Industry Can Do
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Articles: Power
Quality Assurance: The Hidden Key to Battery Manufacturing
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Briefs: Power
Lithium Metal Battery Issue Might be Solved
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Briefs: Energy
Safer Batteries for Storing Energy at Massive Scale
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
How Redwood Materials Prioritizes Battery Recycling Safety
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Products: Energy
New Products
See the new products, including BYD's FLASH Charging, delivering up to 1500kW through a single connector, and the second generation of its Blade Battery; Sensata's FaultBreak contactor, a next-generation high-voltage switching and protection solution; and more.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A Flexible and Efficient DC-DC Power Converter
A new DC-DC power converter is superior to previous designs and paves the way for more efficient, reliable, and sustainable energy storage and conversion solutions. The Kobe University development can efficiently interface with a wide range of energy sources while enhancing system stability and simplicity at an unprecedented efficiency. Read on to learn more.
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Blog: Energy
A Proof‑of‑Concept Quantum Battery
In a new study, scientists have created a proof‑of‑concept quantum battery that can charge, store and discharge energy – the closest step yet toward a working quantum battery. Read on to learn more.
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Quiz: Energy
Test Your Knowledge About Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Here is a five-question quiz to see how much you know about fuel cells. Take now!
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Briefs: Energy
Porous Radical Organic Framework Improves Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
A team led by Professor Yan Lu, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, and Professor Arne Thomas, Technical University of Berlin, has developed a material that enhances the capacity and stability of lithium-sulfur batteries. Read on to learn more.
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Articles: Energy
Products of Tomorrow
See the products of tomorrow, including a new material that can use sunlight and water to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide; a novel design for solar-powered data centers that will orbit the Earth and could realistically scale to meet the growing demand for AI computing while reducing the environmental impact of data centers; and more.
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Briefs: Power
Yarn-Shaped Supercapacitors Promise Efficient Energy Storage
As interest in wearable technology has surged, research into creating energy-storage devices that can be woven into textiles has also increased. Researchers at North Carolina State University have now identified a “sweet spot” at which the length of a threadlike energy storage technology called a “yarn-shaped supercapacitor” yields the highest and most efficient flow of energy per unit length. Read on to learn more.
INSIDER: Energy
New Technology Makes Solar Panels Blend Seamlessly Into Buildings
German researchers have developed a technique for applying realistic designs to photovoltaic modules, which convert sunlight into electricity, enabling them to mimic roof tiles and integrate more seamlessly into buildings. Read on to learn about this new method, termed ShadeCut.
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Special Reports: Power
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Power Electronics - April 2026
This compendium of articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology magazines looks at the latest advances in power electronics and energy storage for applications ranging from...

Products: Materials
New Products
See the new products, including Littelfuse's TPSMB Asymmetrical Series TVS Diodes; Siemens' SICHARGE FLEX product family, its next-generation EV distributed charging system; Renesas Electronics Corporation's expansion of its software-defined vehicle solution offerings centered around the fifth generation (Gen 5) R-Car family; and much more.
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Briefs: Energy
Breakthrough in Carbon-Based Battery Materials Improves Safety, Durability, and Power
This research demonstrates a new way to make carbon-based battery materials much safer, longer lasting, and more powerful by fundamentally redesigning how fullerene molecules are connected. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Energy
Building an Affordable Grid-Scale Alternative to Batteries
Researchers at Rice University have found a new way to improve a key element of thermophotovoltaic systems, which convert heat into electricity via light. Read on to learn more about it.
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Blog: Energy
Beyond Lithium: The Rise of Calcium-Ion Energy Storage
The innovative approach led to the creation of a full calcium-ion cell that exhibited a reversible specific capacity of 155.9 mAh g–1 at 0.15 A g–1 and maintained over 74.6 percent capacity retention at 1 A g–1 after 1,000 cycles, showcasing the potential of redox COFs to advance CIB technology.
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INSIDER: Energy
Could Mobile Batteries Enable Electric Construction Vehicles to Enhance Grid Resilience?
In a first-of-its-kind test, engineers at the University of California San Diego are experimenting with large, mobile batteries to both charge electric...
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INSIDER: Energy
Fast Charging of Electric Cars Without Cables
In a cooperative project, Empa researchers investigated inductive charging of electric cars. This is not only similarly efficient to cable-based charging but could also simplify the integration...
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Briefs: Energy
New Fuel Cell Could Enable Electric Aviation
Batteries are nearing their limits in terms of how much power they can store for a given weight. That’s a serious obstacle for energy innovation and the search for new ways to power airplanes, trains, and ships. Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have come up with a solution that could help electrify these transportation systems. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Energy
All-Solid-State Lithium Battery Breakthrough
Researchers at McGill University have made a major breakthrough in advancing all-solid-state lithium batteries, a promising next-generation technology for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. By addressing a long-standing issue with battery performance, this innovation could pave the way for safer, longer-lasting EVs. Read on to learn more.
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Blog: Energy
Staining Technique Could Advance Li-ion Batteries
The discovery could lead to increased manufacturing efficiency of battery electrodes and ultimately help improve the charging rate and lifetime of Li-ion batteries.
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Blog: Energy
Batteries that Can Withstand the Cold
Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a battery design that continues operating through the coldest conditions.
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Blog: Energy
Greener Energy? Drinkable Seawater? This Sodium-Ion Battery Breakthrough May Deliver Just that
Researchers detail how an existing sodium-based material, sodium vanadium oxide, can perform significantly better when the water it naturally contains is not removed.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Top 5 Tech Briefs Quizzes of 2025
Learn which of our little tests were the most popular this year. Find out which five quizzes topped our 2025 list. Thanks for yet another year of loyal readership; we appreciate your devotion to Tech Briefs. Happy Holidays!
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Articles: Power
The End of the Beginning: Why the EV Market Will Overcome the Loss of Tax Credits
Will EV sales in the U.S. double by the end of the decade, or more? Will the U.S. keep pace with China’s relentless iterative improvements on EV technology, or will China increasingly dominate the rapidly electrifying global transportation industry? Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
How Carbon Fibers Can Help Manufacture Li-ion Batteries
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have overcome a barrier to using a more affordable, dry process for manufacturing the Li-ion batteries used in vehicles and electronic devices. The resulting batteries provide greater electricity flow and reduced risk of overheating. Read on to learn more.
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Briefs: Energy
Breakthrough Advances Sodium-Based Battery Design
Read on to learn about research that raises the benchmark for sodium-based all-solid-state batteries and demonstrates thick cathodes that retain performance at room temperature down to subzero conditions.
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Briefs: Power
Breaking the Rules to Build a Better Battery
By flipping a foundational belief in battery design, Hailong Chen and his team found that charging zinc-ion batteries at higher currents can make them last longer. Read on to learn more about this surprising result.
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Podcasts: Aerospace
The Hidden Heroes of Hydrogen Flight: Sealing and Materials
In this sponsored episode of the Aerospace & Defense Technology podcast, Margaux Ningre-Coirier, Aerospace Sales and Market Development Manager at Omniseal Solutions, is the guest to analyze how advanced sealing solutions are becoming the hidden enablers of safe, efficient hydrogen-powered advanced air mobility (AAM). Listen now!
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Briefs: Energy
New Triple-Junction Tandem Solar Cells with Increased Power Efficiency
Researchers from the National University of Singapore have developed a novel triple-junction perovskite/Si tandem solar cell that can achieve a certified world-record power conversion efficiency of 27.1 percent across a solar energy absorption area of 1 sq cm, representing the best-performing triple-junction perovskite/Si tandem solar cell thus far. Read on to learn more.
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INSIDER: Energy
GM to have LMR long-distance battery deployed by 2028
A GM battery executive told an audience at the Battery Show North America audience Tuesday that the company would deploy a lithium manganese-rich (LMR) battery by 2028 in some of its...
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Editorial Webinars: Motion Control

How Motors, Drives, and Sensors are Advancing Humanoid Robots

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Webinars: AR/AI

From Grid to GPU: Validating Next-Gen AI Data Center Power...

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Summits: Energy

Hydrogen & Alternative Fuels Summit 2026

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Engineering Extended-Range Hybrid Systems

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Design for Miniaturization: Meeting the Demand for Smaller,...

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Why Your Integration Stack Is Blocking Your AI Roadmap

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