On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Jukka Järvinen via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> What it comes to better electrolytes.. that is HARD! The testing cycle to > confirm lifetime and usability is way too long. Accelerated aging tests are > not the same at all to real life use. And on that note, see https://goo.gl/xoQKha Instead of lithium, researchers at UC Irvine have used gold nanowires to > store electricity, and have found that their system is able to far outlast > traditional lithium battery construction. The Irvine team's system cycled > through 200,000 recharges without significant corrosion or decline. > However, they don't exactly know why. The original idea of the experiment > was to make a solid-state battery: one that uses an electrolyte gel, rather > than liquid, to help hold charge. Liquid batteries, like the common lithium > variety, are extremely combustible and sensitive to temperature. The Irvine > team was experimenting by substituting a much thicker gel. > "We started to cycle the devices, and then realized that they weren't > going to die," said Reginald Penner, a lead author of the paper. "We don't > understand the mechanism of that yet." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20161014/d2a93dd1/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
