Electric vehicles use lithium ion batteries with small amounts of nickel, manganese and cobalt. How do they work and what chemistry affects their properties? When you purchase through links on our ...

Gas‐phase ion chemistry remains a vibrant field that elucidates fundamental interatomic and intermolecular interactions through the study of charged species in isolation. The investigation of bond ...

For the past 5 years, chemical engineer Ankur Gupta of the University of Colorado Boulder has wondered what rules govern the diffusion of ions through the winding nanoscale tunnels within a ...

Although initially set up to recognize the most beneficial contributions to humankind, it is not every year that a Nobel Prize winning discovery has had such widespread impact. Look at it this way: ...

Researchers have achieved real-time capture of the ionization process and subsequent structural changes in gas-phase molecules through an enhanced mega-electronvolt ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV ...

Creating a rechargeable world has earned three scientists the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry. John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin, M. Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University in ...

Researchers from around the world are looking for the successor to the lithium-ion battery for electric cars, power tools, and electronics—one that will store more energy with less size and weight, ...

It's difficult to form a protective coating that prolongs battery life at the battery's cathode, but there may be a low-cost ...