How do lithium-ion batteries work?
- Written by Robert Masse, Ph.D. Student in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Lithium-ion batteries power lots of different kinds of devices.Transport CanadaThe smartphone era is only just over a decade old, but the pocket-sized computers at the heart of that societal transformation are only really possible because of another technology: lithium-ion batteries.
First sold commercially in 1991 by Sony for its camcorders, these...
