Battery Of The Future: New Storage Material Improves Energy Density Of Lithium-ion Battery

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 11:36 in Physics & Chemistry

High-performance energy storage technologies for the automotive industry or mobile phone batteries and notebooks providing long battery times – these visions of the future are being brought one step nearer. Researchers have developed a new method that utilizes silicon for lithium-ion batteries. Its storage capacity is ten times higher than the graphite substrate which has been used up to now, and promises considerable improvements for users.

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