MIT Professor Harry L. Tuller (right), Graduate Student Thomas Defferriere, and colleagues have shown how light can boost the performance of lithium batteries, fuel cells, and other devices based on the movement of charged atoms, or ions. Credit: Denis Paiste, MIT Materials Research Laboratory, 2019
Engineers from MIT and Kyushu University in Japan have demonstrated for the first time that light can be used to significantly improve the performance of fuel cells, lithium batteries and other devices that are based on the movement of charged atoms, or ions.
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