It's a well-known characteristic of metals that repeated bending in the same place can cause the material to weaken and eventually break; this phenomenon, known as metal fatigue, can cause serious ...

Graphene and hexagonal Boron Nitride possesses exceptional chemical and physical properties. Recent experimental results ...

image: THE INTRODUCTION OF DEFECTS INTO ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR METAL-BASED BATTERIES IS AN EFFECTIVE STRATEGY TO IMPROVE BATTERY PERFORMANCE, DUE TO DEFECTIVE CATALYSTS HAVE THE ADVANTAGES OF HIGH ...

The formation of lithium dendrites is still a mystery, but materials engineers study the conditions that enable dendrites and how to stop them. Historically, as in decades ago, rechargeable lithium ...

Lithium metal is known to possess a very high theoretical capacity of 3,842 mAh g −1 in lithium batteries. However, the use of metallic lithium leads to extensive dendritic growth that poses serious ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are the dominant technology not only for portable electronics but it also is becoming the battery of choice for electric-vehicle and ...

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OAKLAND — Preliminary tests of the BART rail that broke May 5, jamming the morning commute throughout the system, revealed an anomaly that could be a defect in the metal, transit district directors ...