World’s strongest battery paves way for light, energy-efficient vehicles

Battery could make the mobile phone as thin as a credit card or increase the driving range of an electric car by up to 70 percent on a single charge

17-Sep-2024 - When cars, planes, ships or computers are built from a material that functions as both a battery and a load-bearing structure, the weight and energy consumption are radically reduced. A research group at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is now presenting a world-leading advance in ...

Resource-efficient and climate-friendly with sodium-ion batteries

Batteries based on abundant raw materials could reduce geopolitical risks and dependencies on specific regions

15-Dec-2023 - The transition to a society without fossil fuels means that the need for batteries is increasing at a rapid pace. At the same time, the increase will mean a shortage of the metals lithium and cobalt, which are key components in the most common battery types. One option is a sodium-ion battery, ...

New recipe for efficient, environmentally friendly battery recycling

Although it looks as easy as brewing coffee, the exact procedure is a unique scientific breakthrough

20-Oct-2023 - Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, are now presenting a new and efficient way to recycle metals from spent electric car batteries. The method allows recovery of 100 per cent of the aluminium and 98 per cent of the lithium in electric car batteries. At the same time, the ...

Janus graphene opens doors to sustainable sodium-ion batteries

Ten times the energy capacity of standard graphite

31-Aug-2021 - In the search for sustainable energy storage, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, present a new concept to fabricate high-performance electrode materials for sodium batteries. It is based on a novel type of graphene to store one of the world's most common and cheap metal ...

World first concept for rechargeable cement-based batteries

Imagine an entire twenty storey concrete building which can store energy like a giant battery

19-May-2021 - Thanks to unique research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, such a vision could someday be a reality. Researchers from the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering recently published an article outlining a new concept for rechargeable batteries - made of cement. The ...

Big breakthrough for 'massless' energy storage

"The next generation structural battery has fantastic potential"

23-Mar-2021 - Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fibre that serves simultaneously as an electrode, conductor, and load-bearing material. Their latest research breakthrough paves the ...

A 'butter-like' material could make solid state batteries more stable

An interlayer, made of a spreadable material helps improve the current density tenfold, while also increasing performance and safety

26-May-2020 - Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry. Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Xi'an Jiaotong University, China now present a new way of taking this promising concept closer to large-scale application. An interlayer, made of a ...

A new concept could make more environmentally friendly batteries possible

01-Oct-2019 - A new concept for an aluminium battery has twice the energy density as previous versions, is made of abundant materials, and could lead to reduced production costs and environmental impact. The idea has potential for large scale applications, including storage of solar and wind energy. ...