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PC World April 2006 Christopher Null	Battery Boosters Sick of running out of juice at the worst possible moment? Here's how to squeeze every last drop out of your cell phone, laptop, PDA, or digital camera battery and charge it up quickly and conveniently.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Prachi Patel-Predd	Traveling Light On a three-day mission, a Special Forces soldier might lug along 12 kilograms of batteries. But now the military is developing micro fuel cells that could weigh half as much as batteries, and could be recharged -- or rather refilled.
PC World September 2005 Kirk Steers	Longer Life, Lower Cost for All Your Gadgets' Batteries Buy the optimal battery for your particular gadgets... Ways to recharge... Why you should wait to install a 64-bit Windows operating system... A new switch to stop prying eyes from viewing what you have open on your monitor...
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PC World September 28, 2006 Stuart J. Johnston	Should Laptops Come With a Fire Extinguisher? Record-setting recalls highlight the risks of lithium ion technology.
CIO January 1, 2003 Susannah Patton	Bye-Bye Batteries Imagine chatting on your cell phone for months at a time without recharging it. Or taking a laptop on a weeklong business trip without a battery or power cord. That's the goal of scientists around the world working to perfect tiny fuel cells using microtechnology engineering.
National Defense August 2012 Dan Parsons	Power Supply A Consistent Challenge As Troops Use More Gadgets U.S. troops have a technological advantage over most enemies. But each new gadget they wield comes with a need for power and, at-times, with a hidden logistical tail.
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Chemistry World September 15, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Super-thin batteries made from paper and algae Although the batteries have lower voltage and power density than conventional batteries, their low cost and flexibility hold great promise for applications where metal-based batteries are impractical.
PC Magazine December 21, 2005 Bill Howard	Getting the Most from Your Batteries Batteries light up our lives and a whole array of devices. Here's how to choose and use them.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 John Keller	Lithium Batteries Are Still the Choice to Power Manpack Military Gear Lithium batteries are small, lightweight, and efficient, but also important is it's ability to function properly in temperature extremes.
PC World February 21, 2007 Narasu Rebbapragada	Your Not-So-Free Phone The cost of replacement batteries is a significant factor in the total amount that you'll pay for your cell phone.
Chemistry World April 7, 2011 Carl Saxton	Power sources get flexible US scientists have designed an ultra-thin, flexible battery with the highest charge capacity reported for thin film cells. The battery can also be charged at a lower voltage than lithium ion batteries.
Wired November 2006 John Hockenberry	Building a Better Battery They run out of juice - or burst into flames - at exactly the wrong time. Can't anyone make a decent battery?
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 Neil Savage	Batteries That Breathe Using oxygen as a cathode could give lithium batteries 10 times the energy
PC Magazine May 16, 2007 Lisa Zyga	Eco-Friendly Batteries on the Horizon A new generation of longer-lasting, environmentally friendly batteries that run on sugar, urine, and bacteria is on the horizon.
Chemistry World August 8, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Wet batteries power up The performance of water-based lithium-ion batteries has been greatly boosted by removing oxygen from the power cells, report Chinese researchers.
National Defense July 2007 Breanne Wagner	Army Eyes Next Generation Power Sources The Army is investigating potential applications of high energy batteries and Stirling engines.
National Defense February 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Military Fuel-Cell Programs Not Yet Ready for Prime Time While the commercial industry is taking significant steps forward in the adoption of fuel cell technology, military researchers are taking a wait-and-see approach, expressing concern that fuel cells so far have not proven they can work in combat environments.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Micro Possibilities Power-hungry portable devices fuel the drive to develop micro fuel cell technology.
National Defense September 2006 Stew Magnuson	Army Explores Alternative Ways to Add Power on Battlefields Several military laboratories are looking into fuel cell technology to give soldiers the extra juice they need to operate equipment loaded onto humvees and other vehicles.
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PC Magazine March 16, 2004 Carol A. Mangis	Pep Up Your Mobile Phone Most mobile phone users have run down their batteries at inopportune times.
Chemistry World September 25, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Alkaline flow battery charges up renewable energy storage Scientists in the US have developed an alkaline flow battery that they hope will help to tackle the tricky problem of storing energy from renewable power sources such as wind and solar.
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U.S. CPSC March 23, 2005	Thomson Inc. Recall of Portable DVD Player Batteries RCA portable DVD players (model number DRC600N) sold nationwide from September 2002 through July 2003 may have batteries that pose a serious burn and fire hazard. Here's what consumers should do.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Power Trip Sophisticated electronics drive the need for plentiful power on the battlefield.
InternetNews May 18, 2006 Tim Scannell	Samsung Pact Fuels Battery Development MTI Micro Fuel Cells has made a pact with Samsung Electronics to develop micro fuel cells for mobile systems.
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson	Soldier Devices Create Voracious Demand for Better Batteries Batteries may be in limited supply on the battlefield if the latest electronic gear for soldiers doesn't see improvements in power technology.
U.S. CPSC May 13, 2005	Cell Phone Batteries: CPSC, CTIA Working Together to Keep Consumers Safe Some recommendations regarding the safe use of cell phones, batteries and chargers, from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and CTIA-The Wireless Association.
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Philip E. Ross	Boeing's Battery Blues Despite fires in the 787's lithium-ion batteries, planes will become more dependent on electricity and batteries
IndustryWeek January 1, 2009 John Teresko	The Fuel Cell Future The hot topic of the Industrial Truck Association is the setting of standards for a fuel cell future.
National Defense May 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army, Marines Face Uphill Battle To Lighten Troops' Battery Load Troops deploy with more electronic gear than ever: Flashlights, radios, GPS receivers, computers, cameras, mp3 players, small robots, all of which have to be constantly charged.
Chemistry World October 13, 2011 Fay Nolan Neylan	Fluoride Shuttle Batteries Lift Off Scientists in Germany say that a rechargeable battery that works on the basis of fluoride transfer between electrodes could have a better storage capacity than current batteries.
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National Defense February 2007 David Axe	Army Seeks Light, Efficient Batteries to Meet Insatiable Energy Demand In an Army that heavily depends on battery-operated devices to do its job, the complaints are well documented: Batteries are too heavy, too bulky and not very user-friendly.
PC World April 2005 Rex Farrance	New Batteries: Twice the Life New technology leaves traditional alkalines in the dust, improving the energy lifespan of today's portable music devices and digital cameras.
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Chemistry World October 28, 2010 Carol Stanier	Hybrid electrolyte for better batteries Safer, more durable batteries are the aim of a US team that has made a new, hybrid nanoparticle-ionic liquid electrolyte.
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National Defense October 2013 Dan Parsons	Army's Battlefield Network Requires New Thinking on Soldier Power The Army is interested in fielding novel technologies that accomplish more than simply removing pounds from a soldier's load, said Steve Mapes, product lead for soldier power at Program Executive Office Soldier.
InternetNews August 14, 2007 Larry Barrett	Hot Talk: Nokia Warns of Defective Batteries Nokia says as many as 46 million batteries could overheat while charging.