Researchers show chemical reactions, not just mechanical stress, drive dendrite growth in solid-state batteries, weakening materials, and offering new strategies to improve energy storage safety. <br ...

New research has uncovered a surprising cause behind short circuits in next-generation solid-state batteries, ...

Dendrite branching has an important role in normal brain function. Here we report that overexpression of cypin, a protein that has guanine deaminase activity and is expressed in developing processes ...

Dendrites – thin conductive filaments that form inside lithium batteries – reduce the life of these cells and are often responsible for them catching fire. Scientists working at the Pacific Northwest ...

Lithium metal batteries have higher charge density than conventional lithium ion batteries but are prone to problems of tree-like metal dendrites, which can cause short circuits or explosions. A new ...

Lithium metal, and certain other battery concepts, are known to have the potential for far better energy storage performance than today’s lithium-ion technologies. But lithium metal in particular is ...

Anode analysts: Chongmin Wang (left), Wu Xu (centre) and Yang He (right) with their modified environmental transmission electron microscope. (Courtesy: Andrea Starr) Three pioneers of lithium-ion ...

Dendritic structures that emerge during the growth of thin films are a major obstacle in large-area fabrication, a key step towards commercialization. However, current methods of studying dendrites ...

For more than eighty years, deep learning has relied on a simplified model of brain function. The 1943 McCulloch-Pitts model of the neuron fueled breakthroughs in image recognition, speech synthesis ...

Batteries that use solid metal as their charge-carrying electrolyte could potentially be a safer and far more energy-dense ...