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Materials with a higher lithium ion storage capacity are either too heavy or the wrong shape to replace graphite, the electrode material currently used in today's batteries.
Purdue University scientists and engineers have introduced a potential way that these materials could be restructured into a new electrode design that would allow them to increase a battery's lifespan, make it more stable and shorten its charging time.
The study, appearing as the cover of the September issue of Applied Nano Materials, created a net-like structure, called a "nanochain," of antimony, a metalloid known to enhance lithium ion charge capacity in batteries.
The researchers compared the nanochain electrodes to graphite electrodes, finding that when coin cell batteries with the nanochain electrode were only charged for 30 minutes, they achieved double the lithium-ion capacity for 100 charge-discharge cycles.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Rupert Pupnick on Saturday September 21 2019, @09:31PM (1 child)
“The nanochain also keeps lithium ion capacity stable for at least 100 charging-discharging cycles. “There’s essentially no change from cycle 1 to cycle 100, so we have no reason to think that cycle 102 won’t be the same,” Pol said.“
So researchers have made a grand total of 100 test cycles and they’re already announcing it to the press?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @11:20PM
Clear sing that they are trying to catch funds.