This review examines how 3D printing could reshape lithium battery manufacturing by enabling precise control over electrode architecture, solid-electrolyte interfaces, current collectors, and thermal-management components. It highlights how AI-assisted design, multi-material printing, and engineered 3D microstructures may improve ion transport, material utilization, safety, and future scalability.
Additive manufacturing enables rapid, customized and affordable production of components for low-head micro-hydropower systems, significantly reducing barriers to harnessing energy.
To make batteries that last longer, scientists are creating internal battery structures that don’t degrade as quickly as current designs do. In fact, the reason many lithium-ion batteries ultimately fail is that their cathodes, or negative electrodes, crack after repeated charging and discharging.
Microbial fuel cells can convert wastewater pollutants into electricity, but their performance depends heavily on the anode materials that support microbial biofilms and electron transfer. This review shows that biomass-derived carbons, nanostructured coatings, and hybrid anodes could improve power output and lower costs, but scale-up, durability, and real-wastewater performance remain major hurdles.
Rising demand for nickel could shift future supply toward tropical laterite mining, placing major pressure on areas critical for biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, and coastal marine ecosystems. The study shows that protecting priority conservation areas may increase supply risks, while deep-sea mining moratoria could unintentionally intensify terrestrial mining pressure.
A new SHIEG framework shows how geothermal reservoirs, renewable power, thermal storage, and intelligent control systems could work together to create cleaner, more reliable, and more resilient local energy networks.
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has established the Enhanced Visibility and Event Response capability to help grid operators adapt to a rapidly evolving electricity system and thwart potential adversarial cyber and physical attacks on the grid.
Safer and more environmentally friendly indoor solar panels could soon help power electronics in homes and offices, thanks to University of Queensland researchers.
Chemists from the University of Warwick and the University of Birmingham have discovered new material variants by controlling how molecules break down during heating.
Electrodes' surfaces drive reactions that are critical to energy conversion. In batteries, electrodes accept and release electrons. This process charges and discharges the battery.
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