Monthly Archives: June 2020

How does your day look like? Are you waking up early, checking the news at a morning coffee, the weather as well just to be on the safe side, setting up your navigator to accomplish your daily commute, browsing the internet for some juicy feed, listening music and indulging a calculated amount of entertainment material? Well, it turns out you are using your phone just about like anyone else – a lot.

That is not to say excessively, but our lives have inexorably become intricate enough to demand from us an elevated attention to our phones and their applicability. As you may be using your iPhone 8 for tasks beyond phone calls, the battery takes its toll. So how does … Read the rest

Catastrophic failures of lithium-ion batteries are rare. When they do occur though, the consequences can be quite serious. There have been past reports of serious injuries and deaths resulting from exploding cell phone and e-cigarette batteries, for example. As such, anything we can do to make lithium-ion batteries safer should be done.

A group of researchers in Germany think they have come up with something. They have devised a non-contact way of measuring the charge state of a battery using magnetic fields. They say their method can also be used to detect potential problems that battery makers would otherwise be unaware of.

How Batteries Work

All batteries rely on a cathode and anode (the positive and negative ends of the … Read the rest