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Dutch battery startup LeydenJar’s silicon anode tech could pose a challenge to China

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-05 04:56:55

Battery materials startup LeydenJar has closed a €13 million ($15.2 million USD) round to scale up manufacturing of its silicon anode technology for an unnamed “leading U.S.-based consumer electronics company.” The Netherlands-based startup will use the funding, along with a €10 million commitment from the U.S. customer, to build the first phase of its facility, PlantOne in Eindhoven, Netherlands, which will open in 2027. Investors Exantia and Invest-NL lead the round. Today, a majority of the

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This ‘Magical’ Material That Dissolves Like Candy Is Exactly What EVs Have Been Missing

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-22 20:40:05

The irony of eco-friendly electric vehicles is the mountainous load of electronic waste they produce. So far, most targeted efforts to recycle EV batteries have been expensive and chemically toxic—and they haven’t stuck. That could change soon, however, thanks to a promising breakthrough from MIT. In a Nature Chemistry paper published August 28, researchers describe a new type of self-assembling material that easily dissolves in organic solvents. It works reasonably well as the electrolyte in a

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Wireless Power Banks Recalled Over Fires and Explosions—Check the List ASAP

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-12 03:40:36

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Wireless power banks have been recalled for exploding and causing fires. This time, it’s the ESR HaloLock wireless power banks distributed by Waymeet in Hong Kong. The power banks were sold online at Amazon, Home Depot’s website, and Esrtech.com from September 2023 to July 2025, according to a press release from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. “The firm has received nine reports of the lithium-ion battery catching fire and exploding, result

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Dead EV Batteries Are Hoarding a Shocking Amount of Useful Lithium

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-17 02:40:53

The lithium batteries we deem unfit for use in electric vehicles might still contain copious amounts of usable, pure lithium we could retrieve and reuse—a potentially consistent, bountiful supply we’re just not trying hard enough to tap into, a new study suggests. In a study published August 14 in the Journal of Environmental Management, researchers at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia argue that tapping into the leftover lithium in used batteries could fuel a pragmatic, sustainable alt

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Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study

news.ycombinator.com Stephanie Dutchen 2025-12-02 12:56:05

“The idea that lithium deficiency could be a cause of Alzheimer’s disease is new and suggests a different therapeutic approach,” said senior author Bruce Yankner, professor of genetics and neurology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, who in the 1990s was the first to demonstrate that amyloid beta is toxic. The study raises hopes that researchers could one day use lithium to treat the disease in its entirety rather than focusing on a single facet such as amyloid beta or tau, he said. One of the

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Lithium Reverses Alzheimer's in Mice

news.ycombinator.com Stephanie Dutchen 2025-12-02 18:56:05

“The idea that lithium deficiency could be a cause of Alzheimer’s disease is new and suggests a different therapeutic approach,” said senior author Bruce Yankner, professor of genetics and neurology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, who in the 1990s was the first to demonstrate that amyloid beta is toxic. The study raises hopes that researchers could one day use lithium to treat the disease in its entirety rather than focusing on a single facet such as amyloid beta or tau, he said. One of the

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Our Brains Contain Lithium—and Its Loss Might Help Drive Alzheimer’s, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-04 02:00:00

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the cruelest conditions a person can develop. And even with recent advances, there’s only so much that can be done once its symptoms emerge. Research out this week might highlight a critical and previously missed factor driving the disease, one that could even lead to new treatments. Scientists at Harvard Medical School led the study, published Wednesday in Nature. By studying human brain samples and mice, they found evidence that our brains naturally contain the e

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Fire on Virgin Airlines Flight Linked to Power Bank in Passenger’s Bag

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-30 16:15:45

Did a power bank start a fire on a recent Virgin flight? That’s the question investigators are currently trying to answer, as they probe an incident in Australia where a woman’s bag burst into flames. The incident, which involved a flight from Sydney, took place around 9 a.m. on Monday, just as the plane was descending to its destination, the New York Times reports. After the bag burst into flames, the plane’s cabin filled with smoke, according to reports. The plane’s crew managed to put out th

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How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-06 22:05:12

How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis 2 days ago Share Save Ione Wells • @ionewells Foreign correspondent Reporting from Chile Share Save BBC Raquel Celina Rodriguez watches her step as she walks across the Vega de Tilopozo in Chile's Atacama salt flats. It's a wetland, known for its groundwater springs, but the plain is now dry and cracked with holes she explains were once pools. "Before, the Vega was all green," she says. "You couldn't see the animals through th

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Nascent Materials emerges from stealth to make LFP batteries better and cheaper

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-02-25 16:00:00

Lithium-ion batteries have dropped in cost by 75% over the past decade, a marvel of research and development that isn’t the result of a singular breakthrough but of myriad incremental improvements. Few know that better than Chaitanya Sharma, founder of the stealthy Nascent Materials. Sharma spent a little over two years working at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada and another two leading iM3NY, a lithium-ion manufacturer in New York. Since leaving iM3NY in November 2023, he’s been working on a new

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Anker recalls PowerCore 10000 power bank due to fire safety risk

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-03-09 04:41:19

Anker and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission have issued a product recall for a popular power bank due to a fire safety risk … Anker PowerCore 10000 recall The model concerned was sold for more than eight years. We have identified that certain Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks (Model: A1263) manufactured between January 1st, 2016, and October 30th, 2019, which were sold between June 1st, 2016, and December 31st, 2022, only in the United States may pose a fire safety risk due to a pot

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The Download: AI agents’ autonomy, and sodium-based batteries

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-03-20 02:10:00

In recent months, a new class of agents has arrived on the scene: ones built using large language models. Any action that can be captured by text—from playing a video game using written commands to running a social media account—is potentially within the purview of this type of system. LLM agents don’t have much of a track record yet, but to hear CEOs tell it, they will transform the economy—and soon. Despite that, like chatbot LLMs, agents can be chaotic and unpredictable. Here’s what could

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Researchers figure out how to get fresh lithium into batteries

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-14 06:33:10

As the owner of a 3-year-old laptop, I feel the finite lifespan of lithium batteries acutely. It's still a great machine, but the cost of a battery replacement would take me a significant way down the path of upgrading to a newer, even greater machine. If only there were some way to just plug it in overnight and come back to a rejuvenated battery. While that sounds like science fiction, a team of Chinese researchers has identified a chemical that can deliver fresh lithium to well-used batteries

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Latest Tech News

Dutch battery startup LeydenJar’s silicon anode tech could pose a challenge to China

This ‘Magical’ Material That Dissolves Like Candy Is Exactly What EVs Have Been Missing

Wireless Power Banks Recalled Over Fires and Explosions—Check the List ASAP

Dead EV Batteries Are Hoarding a Shocking Amount of Useful Lithium

Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study

Lithium Reverses Alzheimer's in Mice

Our Brains Contain Lithium—and Its Loss Might Help Drive Alzheimer’s, Study Finds

Fire on Virgin Airlines Flight Linked to Power Bank in Passenger’s Bag

How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis

Nascent Materials emerges from stealth to make LFP batteries better and cheaper

Anker recalls PowerCore 10000 power bank due to fire safety risk

The Download: AI agents’ autonomy, and sodium-based batteries

Researchers figure out how to get fresh lithium into batteries

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