lithium-ion batteries

As California’s toxic Salton Sea shrinks, it’s raising health alarms for the surrounding community

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As California’s toxic Salton Sea shrinks, it’s raising health alarms for the surrounding community

Salton City, California — Damien Lopez, age 4, has symptoms that many people who live near Southern California’s Salton Sea also have. “His cough gets very wheezy. I try to control him,” his mother Michelle Lopez said.  “Control” often means visiting pediatric nurse Christina Galindo at Pioneers Memorial Hospital. “I can see up to 25 … Read more

Pixel-by-pixel analysis yields insights into lithium-ion batteries | MIT News

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Pixel-by-pixel analysis yields insights into lithium-ion batteries | MIT News

By mining data from X-ray images, researchers at MIT, Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator, and the Toyota Research Institute have made significant new discoveries about the reactivity of lithium iron phosphate, a material used in batteries for electric cars and in other rechargeable batteries. The new technique has revealed several phenomena that were previously impossible … Read more