Rechargeable battery performance could be improved by a new understanding of how they work at the molecular level. Researchers upend what's known about how rechargeable batteries function. For decades ...

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Once a non-rechargeable battery, zinc-air battery tweaked to become rechargeable one and records higher charge and discharge cycles.

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For decades, experts have thought that performance loss is caused by the unavoidable filmy accumulation on electrodes within rechargeable batteries. It is now clear that the perspective is backward.

RICHLAND, Wash.—For decades, researchers have assumed that the inevitable filmy buildup on electrodes inside rechargeable batteries is the driver of performance loss. Now, we know that view is ...