11 January, 2020

Researchers in Australia take key step toward battery of the future

Researchers in Australia believe they have solved one of the key problems holding back the battery of the future, a breakthrough that would allow them to develop cells that could run a smartphone for four days.
Mahdokht Shaibani, Matthew Hill and Meysam Mirshekarloo at their Monash University battery lab.
Mahdokht Shaibani, Matthew Hill and Meysam
Mirshekarloo at their Monash University battery lab.
Lithium-sulphur batteries can theoretically store six times as much energy as the lithium-ion batteries currently used in phones and electric vehicles, but that extra power can cause them to swell and break.

Read the story from The Age by Liam Mannix - “Researchers in Australia take key step toward battery of the future.”

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