The most popular battery technology, lithium-ion batteries, may have just received a big shot in the arm. Scientists have found in a new study that adding conductive carbon fillers to an electrode material would lead to improved battery performance with higher electrochemical utilization. This could allow lithium-ion batteries to overcome one of the constraints to achieving higher energy density while allowing reversible energy storage at the same time. Any breakthrough in lithium-ion battery design, or any battery design for that matter, could prove to be the turning point in the energy transition, allowing for increased use of electric vehicles (EVs) and helping the growth in energy storage deployment necessary to support the rising renewable energy capacity around the world. The lithium-ion battery is currently the technology of choice for both EV manufacturers and energy storage developers, and battery costs have significantly declined over the past decade due to new […]