"There is a gap in understanding how the grain orientation, also known as the texture, impacts the rechargeable metal battery performance." A new paper from Meng's Laboratory for Energy Storage ...

However, the impact of metal texture has largely been overlooked in battery development. Soft metals like lithium and sodium have excellent properties for being batteries’ negative electrodes ...

You can see the texture pattern in the banner above and ... [Stefan] thought of sheet metal products that often use bead patterns to increase stiffness and strength. Can patterned plastic be ...

Digital Foundry says that there are improvements but key problems have not been addressed - and the PC port with mods is the best way to play.

ZINC and cadmium atoms are known to exhibit good mobility over, and ready re-evaporability from, a suitable substrate surface on which the metal vapour beam is incident. Thus the vapour – beam ...