Study sheds new light on why batteries go bad

Sunday, September 14, 2014 - 12:00 in Physics & Chemistry

A comprehensive look at how tiny particles in a lithium ion battery electrode behave shows that rapid-charging the battery and using it to do high-power, rapidly draining work may not be as damaging as researchers had thought – and that the benefits of slow draining and charging may have been overestimated.

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