The hydrogen ion concentration is a measure of the acidity of seawater and is commonly expressed on the pH scale; the lower the pH, the higher the hydrogen ion concentration and the acidity of ...

Many of the devices that make modern life convenient and efficient rely on rechargeable batteries. Lithium-ion batteries, one of the more common types used, are low cost and work at a high operating ...

Researchers from Tohoku University have developed a technique to study and identify metal ion dissolution in lithium-ion battery cathodes. Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), they could ...

It’s the best electrical energy storage technology we have today, but lithium-ion batteries still have a range of problems.

Since their introduction into the commercial market in 1991, lithium (Li) ion batteries have remained one of the most widely used electrochemical power sources for a number of important applications.

SHENZHEN -- Chinese scientists, in collaboration with their counterparts from the Republic of Korea, have observed the dissolution process of salt in water at the atomic level for the first time using ...

The uptake of metals into individual cells is of importance to both environmental 1 and human health 2,3 studies, whether the metal is dissolved or exists as nanoparticles (NPs). Cellular metal ...

In a groundbreaking study, Professor Won-Jin Kwak in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST, in collaboration with researchers from Hanyang University, have pioneered a method to ...