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posted by martyb on Wednesday February 01 2017, @01:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the hopes-for-explosive-growth dept.

It seems that we're constantly hearing about promising new battery technologies and eventually one of them will stick.

Mike Zimmerman, a professor at Tufts University and founder of Ionic Materials, hopes that his remarkably resilient ionic battery technology will be the one that does. At a glance, his ionic battery technology appears to a legitimate shot at finally pushing the category forward in a significant way.

The reason scientists and researchers pay so much attention to battery design is because today's lithium-ion units have several downsides. As we saw recently with Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 recall, they can overheat and catch fire. Even when they work correctly, lithium-ion batteries degrade over a relatively short time as they go through recharge cycles, and they don't last all that long to begin with.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @07:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @07:07AM (#461909)

    Replying to my own comment, it just occurred to me that if the batteries containing metallic lithium end up in water and the water gets inside or they are broken open and they get wet, you're going to have a serious exothermic reaction.