Volta’s pile — the first battery — was little more than silver and zinc discs separated by paper soaked in salt water. A classic classroom experiment is to build a pile from copper pennies, tin foil, ...

During World War II a scientist named Georg Otto Erb developed the molten salt battery for use in military applications. The war ended before Erb’s batteries found any real use, but British ...

A team of researchers from the departments of physics and chemistry at Imperial College London have developed a battery prototype using salt water and nontoxic materials that can charge in seconds.

Alas, the life of a DIY columnist never slows. The day after my in-depth expose on the myriad uses of distilled vinegar, my co-worker, Sarah, popped by my desk and dropped a bomb (figuratively ...

Engineers at MIT have developed a new battery design using common materials – aluminum, sulfur and salt. Not only is the battery low-cost, but it’s resistant to fire and failures, and can be charged ...