This New 'Perfect' Battery Has Experts Stumped
One of the inventors of the modern lithium-ion battery, John Goodenough, and a team of researchers claim to have invented a new solid state battery. But is it too good to be true? Disney...
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The Lithium ion battery has made our modern phones, laptops, and electric cars possible.The secret is its ability to cram a lot of power into a tiny package, but for its inventorJohn B Goodenough, that wasn’t good enough.Nearly 40 years after he helped create a battery that would change the world, Goodenough andresearchers at the University of Texas at Austin have announced they’ve invented anew battery that sounds too good to be true.Goodenough has a few issues with his old lithium ion battery.It’s still too weak, too expensive, and has the pesky habit of exploding from timeto time.If a battery is charged too quickly, lithium tends to slowly build up through the liquidelectrolyte in long thin whiskers called dendrites.If the dendrites get long enough to connect the ...
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The Lithium ion battery has made our modern phones, laptops, and electric cars possible.The secret is its ability to cram a lot of power into a tiny package, but for its inventorJohn B Goodenough, that wasn’t good enough.Nearly 40 years after he helped create a battery that would change the world, Goodenough andresearchers at the University of Texas at Austin have announced they’ve invented anew battery that sounds too good to be true.Goodenough has a few issues with his old lithium ion battery.It’s still too weak, too expensive, and has the pesky habit of exploding from timeto time.If a battery is charged too quickly, lithium tends to slowly build up through the liquidelectrolyte in long thin whiskers called dendrites.If the dendrites get long enough to connect the ...
