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Crystal clues to better batteries

February 19th, 2007

Crystal clues to better batteries

Longer-lasting laptop and mobile phone batteries could be a step closer thanks to research by scientists at the University of Oxford. Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics are part of an international team investigating sodium cobaltate: a material similar in structure to the lithium cobaltate used in rechargeable batteries for many electronic devices. Read the rest of this entry »