A Tainan-based National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) research team led by Prof. Fei-Yi Hung, Chun-Shing Lu and Li-Huei Chen from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering working with its instrument center has developed next-generation magnesium batteries that could replace lithium batteries. The team has been working on the research of magnesium battery, and has succeeded in overcoming the problems caused by the high activity of magnesium and increasing the stability, Prof. Hung revealed.
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Prof. Hung said, the stability of the magnesium battery prototype has been increased by controlling the reduction-oxidation effects and by the use of magnesium membrane electrodes and magnesium powder electrodes technology.
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He said, devices powered by lithium batteries are usually unable to function properly in temperatures below minus-15 degrees C. However, the team found that if they coated lithium batteries with magnesium, they still worked at temperatures as low as minus-30 degrees C and as high as 55 degrees C.
“We hope the next-generation battery would be more environmentally friendly,” according to Prof. Hung. Because in the present generation the negative electrode is usually made from graphite, which is made from processed petroleum coke, he explained.
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He added that not only are graphite electrodes less capable of storing energy, the processing of petroleum is less environmentally friendly.
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