Tag: electrolytes

Dec

Nanotube film drowns out battery-killing lithium tentacles

By kevin du Comments are Off battery cycle life, battery test, electrolytes, energy storage solution, high c-rate charge and discharge, lithium ion batteries, material research

Battery researchers are fighting battles on many fronts in their efforts to advance our energy capabilities, and one of those centers on dangly tentacles of lithium called dendrites. These form as a battery charges and quickly degrade their capacity, so scientists are coming at them from all angles in attempts to quash them. New research out of Rice University describes

Dec

Making it crystal clear: Crystallinity reduces resistance in all-solid-state batteries

By kevin du Comments are Off all-solid-state battery, battery test, electrode, electrolytes, high c-rate charge and discharge, lithium ion batteries

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology examined the mechanisms behind the resistance at the electrode-electrolyte interface of all-solid-state batteries. Their findings will aid in the development of much better Li-ion batteries with very fast charge/discharge rates. Designing and improving lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries is crucial for extending the limits of modern electronic devices and electric vehicles because Li-ion batteries are virtually