Jan
9
Solid State Lithium Metal Battery Design Lasts 6000 Cycles
January 9, 2024 | Leave a Comment
Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences researchers have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times. That’s more than any other pouch battery cell – and can be recharged in a matter of minutes. The cycle count equals more than 16 years of […]
Feb
22
Lithium Sulfur Battery Chemistry Gets Closer To Practical
February 22, 2023 | Leave a Comment
An Argonne National Laboratory research team has built and tested a new interlayer to prevent dissolution of the sulfur cathode in lithium-sulfur batteries. This new interlayer increases Li-S cell capacity and maintains it over hundreds of cycles. With this new design, lithium-sulfur batteries could reach their full potential. The paper about the research was published […]
Feb
25
Best Practices To Build Lithium Metal Batteries Offered
February 25, 2021 | Leave a Comment
An international research team has now developed concrete guidelines for how lithium metal batteries should be charged and operated, maximizing efficiency while minimizing the risk of short circuits. There are high hopes for the next generation of high energy-density lithium metal batteries, but before they can be used in our vehicles, there are crucial problems […]
Jul
19
Daring Attempt For a Better Lithium Battery
July 19, 2018 | 3 Comments
University of Maryland researchers have figured out how to increase a rechargeable battery’s capacity by using aggressive electrodes. They stabilizing these potentially dangerous electrode materials with a highly-fluorinated electrolyte. The success of electric car batteries depends on the miles that can be driven on a single charge, but the current crop of lithium-ion batteries are […]