A team of researchers from Stanford have developed a new battery electrode that can survive 40,000 charge cycles. That's about a hundred times more than a normal Lithium-Ion battery, and enough to make it usable for somewhere between 10-30 years.
So how does it work? It's down to what it's made from: copper hexacyanoferrate. The structure of the material lets charge-carrying ions move in and out of the electrode easily, and it's extremely rugged, so it degrades at a much slower rate than Li-On batteries. That all means it can charge and discharge rapidly, and lasts for ages.
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I have the same ones in the photo, and they definitively lose their strength after awhile.
they could do, but I think they won't realize them because those batteries would kill all the others (batteries).
Now they just need to invent a battery that lasts 10-30 years between charges.
This would be awesome.
For sure they can, but it's not a scientist problem but the battery companies who want you to buy more batteries.
crazy!
Wouldn't those batteries cost a ton of money to produce and buy?2222222222222222
Looks pretty promising, I have a few posts about advances in technology on my blog, albeit a bit less on the cutting edge.
That would be absolutely amazing although it would certainly be tough to secure and invent right? It's a great concept but it's a long while away I think.
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