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Digital image depicting a green battery

What does it take to make a better battery?

01 Oct 2024

Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology’s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green...

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Multi-coloured jelly batteries being stretched by two hands

Soft, stretchy ‘jelly batteries’ inspired by electric eels

17 Jul 2024

Researchers have developed soft, stretchable ‘jelly batteries’ that could be used for wearable devices or soft robotics, or even implanted in the...

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Members of the Echion team

Echion Technologies secures £29 million to help commercialise its sustainable battery technology

19 Jun 2024

Cambridge spinout, Echion Technologies has raised £29 million in investment capital to help it increase the production of its fast-charging, long-...

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Left to right: Clare Grey, Xinyu Liu, Alex Forse

Mess is best: disordered structure of battery-like devices improves performance

18 Apr 2024

̽»¨Ö±²¥energy density of supercapacitors – battery-like devices that can charge in seconds or a few minutes – can be improved by increasing the ‘...

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Celebrating Women in STEM

11 Feb 2024

To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science , two of our academics speak about their research careers and how they ended up using...

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