ANN ARBOR -- The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences' "No-Mask Electroplating" project won first place in the "Great Ideas Competition" at SAE's 2011 DoD Maintenance Symposium and Exhibition in ...
The reason for the slightly lower Coulombic efficiency in the backside-plating configuration compared with conventional one is HER caused by the carbon coating at the edge, which has a lower ...
Removing the anode entirely and plating lithium straight onto copper during charging can, in theory, nearly double a cell’s gravimetric energy. The catch is that lithium tends to deposit unevenly, ...
The researchers employ a facet-oriented Zn metal, with a physicochemically polished surface, minimizing surface energy and surface defects, leading to uniform, horizontal magnesium growth. This ...
Solid-state lithium metal batteries (SS-LMBs) exhibit higher energy density than conventional lithium-ion batteries. However, the use of lithium metal as an anode in large-scale manufacturing remains ...
Editor’s note: Steven Bales is president of Bales Mold Service Inc., a supplier of engineered coatings and finishes. When a customer is hot for a job—and that’s most customers these ...