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Stanford Creates Pomegranate-inspired Battery

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday March 01 2014, @06:00PM   
from the three-seeds-from-Hades dept.

TheUnknownCoder writes:

"Researchers at Stanford University have taken inspiration from the pomegranate to design a supercharged anode battery. Working in collaboration with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the team used the pomegranate's unique seed design to make a battery that can store 10 times more charge than a standard rechargeable lithium-ion battery."

• Re:That's a lot of storage for power. Re:That's a lot of storage for power. (Score: 3, Interesting) by bd on Saturday March 01 2014, @06:47PM

  by bd (2773) on Saturday March 01 2014, @06:47PM (#9188)

  Agreed, that is a lot of power density and really good degradation behavior.

  This may also be quite nice for electric cars.

  Given the quality assurance habits of your typical cheap battery manufacturer, I wonder what the failure modes of such a battery will be?
  What happens if one of these cells with 10 times more capacity short circuit? Fire? Magic smoke? Can I have my own dual-use cellphone/hand-grenade?

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• Re:That's a lot of storage for power. (Score: 3, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Saturday March 01 2014, @11:58PM

  by hemocyanin (186) on Saturday March 01 2014, @11:58PM (#9281) Journal

  This would definitely be good for electric cars -- take the Nissan Leaf for example with it's 80 mile range -- halve the battery and go 400 miles, maybe more because of the weight savings. It would take out of the realm of being an expensive extra car, into being a real contender for one's primary or sole car.

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