The greatest enemy of proprietary hardware and components is time. Eventually, that little adapter cable or oddball battery pack isn’t going to be available anymore, and you’re stuck with a ...

The battery built by his team endured 500 complete charge cycles—about as many as the batteries in most smartphones are ...

This BMS has all of these connections printed onto a PCB ... This reduces the complexity of assembling the battery and ensures that any time it’s hooked up to a number of cells, the BMS is ...

Rather than adding fungi to a pre-assembled battery, researchers integrated fungal cells into the 3D-printed battery structure itself. Electrodes were carefully designed to provide nutrients to ...