Batteries articles within Nature

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• Letter | 08 January 2014

  A metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery

  Flow batteries, in which the electro-active components are held in fluid form external to the battery itself, are attractive as a potential means for regulating the output of intermittent renewable sources of electricity; an aqueous flow battery based on inexpensive commodity chemicals is now reported that also has the virtue of enabling further improvement of battery performance through organic chemical design.

  • Brian Huskinson
  • , Michael P. Marshak
  •  & Michael J. Aziz

• News | 24 October 2012

  Pioneering battery maker files for bankruptcy

  A123 Systems goes under after 11 years.

  • Devin Powell

• Research Highlights | 03 October 2012

  Bendable battery yields flexible LED

• Research Highlights | 01 August 2012

  Rechargeable Li–air battery

• News | 22 May 2012

  Manufacturing woes haunt high-tech battery maker

  Clean-technology darling A123 Systems suffers financial losses following recall.

  • Katherine Bourzac

• News | 25 July 2011

  Transparent battery powers the way to translucent devices

  Researchers fabricate electrodes that are too small to see.

  • Duncan Graham-Rowe

• Books & Arts | 25 May 2011

  Technology: Charging towards the superbattery

  Lithium-ion technology is bringing us closer to solving energy and transport problems, finds Bruno Scrosati.

  • Bruno Scrosati

• News Feature | 06 January 2010

  Smart grids: The energy storage problem

  Renewable energy is not a viable option unless energy can be stored on a large scale. David Lindley looks at five ways to do that.

  • David Lindley