Cleaning Up Hybrid Battery Electrodes Improves Capacity and Lifespan
Friday, April 22, 2016 - 03:20
in Physics & Chemistry
Hybrid batteries that charge faster than conventional ones could have significantly better electrical capacity and long-term stability when prepared with a gentle-sounding way of making electrodes. Called ion soft-landing, the high-precision technique resulted in electrodes that could store a third more energy and had twice the lifespan compared to those prepared by a conventional method, the researchers report today in Nature Communications.