Unexpected discovery leads to a better battery

Discussion in 'Chemistry' started by Plazma Inferno!, Apr 19, 2016.

  1. Plazma Inferno! Ding Ding Ding Ding Administrator

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    An unexpected discovery has led to a rechargeable battery that's as inexpensive as conventional car batteries, but has a much higher energy density. The new battery could become a cost-effective, environmentally friendly alternative for storing renewable energy and supporting the power grid.
    A team based at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory identified this energy storage gem after realizing rechargeable zinc-manganese batteries work in a different way than they had assumed.
    In other words, they applied simple fix by adding manganese ions to the electrolyte in a new test battery and put the revised battery through another round of tests. The test battery was able to reach a storage capacity of 285 milliAmpere-hours per gram of manganese oxide over 5,000 cycles, while retaining 92 percent of its initial storage capacity.

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    Paper (behind a paywall): http://www.nature.com/articles/nenergy201639
     
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  3. Walter L. Wagner Cosmic Truth Seeker Valued Senior Member

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    Elon Musk will love this. I wonder if he knows about it yet? Lighter, longer-lasting batteries for his battery-factory in Nevada for his battery-electric cars.


    http://www.rgj.com/story/money/reno...ery-plant-gigafactory1-technobubble/26687671/
     
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