Lithium batteries are produced as either primary (disposable) or secondary (rechargeable) batteries. All batteries have positive and negative terminals, marked (+) and (-) respectively, and two ...

Before John B. Goodenough created the rechargeable lithium-ion battery in 1980, there wasn't much interest in Lithium. By the middle of the following decade the lithium-ion battery became the go ...

Lewin Day wrote a beginner’s guide to lithium batteries that can help sort them out. How a Li-ion battery discharges. Image by Sdk16420 CC-BY-SA Every battery has three parts: an anode ...

And if a sodium-ion battery were to use the heavy metals found in lithium-ion batteries, then the environmental impact would likely be similar. Experts say that sodium-ion batteries have limited ...