Sodium-Ion Battery Water-Based Electrode Processing
Water-based electrode processing keeps coming up because it removes the most expensive and most regulated fluid on the coating line. I have run NMP and aqu…
Anode-Free Semi-Solid State Battery Cells: A Design Guide
An anode-free cell is the most honest test of an electrolyte. You start with a bare copper current collector, put every milligram of lithium in the cathode…
Sodium-Ion Battery Cathode Materials: Layered Oxides vs (2)
Why Cathode Choice Defines a Sodium-Ion Battery
When I spec a sodium-ion battery for a stationary storage or low-speed mobility customer, the conversation…
Lithium Battery for Medical Carts and Hospital Equipment
When a clinical floor manager asks me to size a lithium battery for medical carts and hospital equipment, the conversation never starts with energy density…
Lithium Battery Testing for Power Tools: Pulse-Current
In eleven years of designing and validating lithium battery packs for cordless tools, I have watched more projects fail at the validation bench than at the…
Battery Solution for Emergency Response Command Vehicles
Most of the “battery solution” articles I have written for our customers begin with a kWh budget, a duty-cycle table, and a chemistry choice. The ones I g…
Sodium-Ion Battery Design for Street Lights: Cold-Start
I still remember the first time I pulled a failed lead-acid brick out of a street-light pole in Tianjin, twenty-three years ago. The acid had wicked up the…
How to Choose the Right Drone Battery for Long-Range
Long-range surveying turns the drone battery for long-range surveying into the single most important component on the airframe. When a mapping or inspectio…