Argonne News Brief: Oleo Sponge soaks up oil spills from water

Researchers now able to predict battery lifetimes with machine learning

Imagine a psychic telling your parents, on the day you were born, how long you would live. A similar experience is possible for battery chemists who are using new computational models to calculate battery lifetimes based on as little as a single cycle of experimental data. In a new study, r ... more

Machine learning program for games inspires development of groundbreaking scientific tool

We learn new skills by repetition and reinforcement learning. Through trial and error, we repeat actions leading to good outcomes, try to avoid bad outcomes and seek to improve those in between. Researchers are now designing algorithms based on a form of artificial intelligence that uses re ... more

Wet electrolyte could be a key to inexpensive energy storage

For scientists working to create the next generation of batteries, water has typically been the enemy. For example, lithium-ion batteries typically need to be produced under extremely dry conditions for them to hold large amounts of charge. But a new discovery may show that a specific type ... more