A commercial nuclear battery from City Labs. A Betavoltaic cell is a device that uses a radioactive source of beta particles and a semiconductor p-n junction to generate electricity. Tritium ...

Keeping your phone plugged in once it hits a full charge and consistently charging it to 100% keeps the battery at a high ...

Let’s say, you want to free a pouch cell from an old tablet. First, try to squirt liberal amounts of isopropyl under the battery and let it soften, and twist the cell instead of bending it ...

as in a dry-cell battery. The more layers, the higher the voltage. Electrical current, meanwhile, has to do with surface area. The greater the surface area of the electrodes, the greater the current.

For some reason, neither phones nor laptops really offer a “time to empty” feature that allows you to see how long your battery will last in hours and minutes — though most cars will try and ...

If you don't have access to an electrical outlet, conserving battery life should be high on your chore list. Try to keep batteries charged at an average of 50% or above most of the time — at the ...

In 1888, German physician Carl Gassner (1855–1942) developed the Leclanché cell, an early form of electrical battery, into what became the first zinc-carbon battery. It was dubbed the dry cell ...