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Batteries

Comment: Tackling the EV waste mountain 

Circular ecosystem vital for better EV recycling

Licovolt teams up with PBT on battery recycling

Scrap rates are significantly higher for new factories and new manufacturers

Partnership set to improve EV battery production

Carbon-14 diamond battery could work ‘forever’

IEA report shows how recycling can bolster critical minerals

UK’s largest grid-connected battery plugs in at Drax substation

Potassium-ion batteries have potential as an alternative method of storing and delivering large amounts electricity

Material discovery could lead to improved potassium-ion batteries

The development of tiny, soft and biocompatible batteries to power minimally invasive biomedical devices is of critical importance. Here the authors present a microscale soft rechargeable lithium-ion battery based on the surfactant-supported assembly of silk hydrogel droplets. Scale bar: 400μm

Oxford team develops soft hydrogel lithium-ion battery

The plant has an expected recovery rate of over 96 per cent

Mercedes-Benz opens battery recycling plant

KAIST develops new technology for the diagnosis of EV batteries

The project will demonstrate battery cells produced with recovered cathode active materials

Altilium in project with JLR to validate EV cells from recycled batteries