Technology powers our lives, which is why it's important to keep all of our devices in tip-top shape. This includes giving even the smallest devices, like remote controls and mouses, some regular ...

So you’ve come out to your car, cranked the starter, and found that your car is dead? And after popping the hood and inspecting the battery, you’ve found corrosion around the car’s battery terminals ...

While modern power systems in personal electronics and larger devices have been gradually moving toward rechargeable frameworks in the interest of sustainability, there's still a lot of disposable ...

What's that powdery, crystallized stuff inside your battery case? Classic battery corrosion. While it can be a frustrating and potentially dangerous matter to resolve, it isn't usually hard to clean ...

Corroded battery terminals are one of those small problems that quietly turn into big headaches, from slow cranking on a cold morning to a car that suddenly will not start in a grocery store parking ...

Double A batteries are great. Until you leave a camera in a drawer for awhile and the batteries leak and make a mess. I was traveling and bought off-brand batteries at a gas station. The corrosion ...

Our lives as engineers get so caught up with “stuff” that sometimes it’s hard for us to keep track of it all. Fig. 1: Don’t fret about this yucky situation; you can rehab corroded contacts. Take the ...

Energy storage is an essential element of the clean energy transition, from the electrification of cars to helping smooth out the intermittency of variable renewables such as wind and solar.

I'm sure anyone who's ever jump-started a car, replaced a car battery, or built a small 12V DIY nipple-torture device has seen this: a powdery, white and blue and maybe sometimes green substance on ...

So a couple of Duracell alkalines out of 4 that were installed in my camera flash unit corroded and nearly destroyed it(1). The batteries were relatively new; the corrosion happened in Fall 2012, the ...

As you may know, we’re rather big fans of building things here at Hackaday. But we’re also quite partial to repairing things which might otherwise end up in a landfill. Especially when those things ...

Car batteries fail without warning from the visible signs most drivers recognize. The internal chemical degradation that ...