Lithium ion batteries (LIB) have become ubiquitous in our everyday lives. Today, they are found in mobile phones, laptop computers, electric vehicles… even grid-connected energy systems and the International Space Station. A rapidly growing sector for LIB use is in electric vehicles (EV), the production and use of which are projected to increase enormously over …

Space. The final frontier. This is the voyage of the spacecraft Cassini. Its 13-year mission: to explore the ringed planet Saturn, 746 million miles (1.2 billion kilometers) from earth. That mission came to a fiery, glorious end when the Cassini spacecraft crashed through Saturn’s atmosphere in what NASA called the final chapter of an amazing …