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An article published in the journal 'SCIENCE' less than a few days ago (Friday)discusses the research by an All-Star group looking into a viable improvement to Lithium (Li) ion batteries, it's not exactly a new type of battery, but the ability to utilize the technology without high temperatures is new.
What follows is a brief description of it:
"Now, though, an all-star team of researchers from Caltech, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Honda say they’ve developed a fluoride-based battery that could deliver up to ten times the energy density of a conventional lithium-ion cell — and that take fewer resources to manufacture.
The team describes the new battery in a paper published Friday in the journal Science. Basically, CNET reports, fluoride batteries have been around for a while — but they required oven-like temperatures of around 300 degrees Farenheit (150 Celsius) to function. The new battery, according to Caltech and company, can produce power at room temperature.
“Fluoride-ion batteries offer a promising new battery chemistry with up to ten times more energy density than currently available Lithium batteries,” said Christopher Brooks, a Honda Research Institute researcher and a co-author of the paper, in a press release. “Unlike Li-ion batteries, FIBs do not pose a safety risk due to overheating, and obtaining the source materials for FIBs creates considerably less environmental impact than the extraction process for lithium and cobalt.”
The article further states that unlike lithium batteries are the technology/chemistry, "behind the fluoride battery say that it’s unlikely to burst into flames."
Great. Just after I jumped last summer into the Weight Watchers of bike batteries, Li-ion, I'll be able to stick a battery the size of a 9-volt in its place. (No worries, it will take much longer to trickle down to a market like bikes & small recreational usage).
What follows is a brief description of it:
"Now, though, an all-star team of researchers from Caltech, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Honda say they’ve developed a fluoride-based battery that could deliver up to ten times the energy density of a conventional lithium-ion cell — and that take fewer resources to manufacture.
The team describes the new battery in a paper published Friday in the journal Science. Basically, CNET reports, fluoride batteries have been around for a while — but they required oven-like temperatures of around 300 degrees Farenheit (150 Celsius) to function. The new battery, according to Caltech and company, can produce power at room temperature.
“Fluoride-ion batteries offer a promising new battery chemistry with up to ten times more energy density than currently available Lithium batteries,” said Christopher Brooks, a Honda Research Institute researcher and a co-author of the paper, in a press release. “Unlike Li-ion batteries, FIBs do not pose a safety risk due to overheating, and obtaining the source materials for FIBs creates considerably less environmental impact than the extraction process for lithium and cobalt.”
The article further states that unlike lithium batteries are the technology/chemistry, "behind the fluoride battery say that it’s unlikely to burst into flames."
Great. Just after I jumped last summer into the Weight Watchers of bike batteries, Li-ion, I'll be able to stick a battery the size of a 9-volt in its place. (No worries, it will take much longer to trickle down to a market like bikes & small recreational usage).
