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New ways to make lithium-ion batteries may result in lighter, smaller and can be completed within a few seconds the battery.
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However, this approach requires a well-known material for the production process, only simple modifications.
The new study, published in the scientific journal Nature.
As electronic punch that they pack for each gram, lithium-ion rechargeable batteries are the most common consumer electronics products such as notebook computers.
However, their time-dependent, the researchers assumed up to now, there is a pair of lithium-ion and electronic speed limit, through the formation of the battery through the electrochemical circuit.
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Gerbrand Ceder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the United States, and his colleagues learn how to use computer models to simulate the standard lithium-phosphate is known as a material variables lithium iron ion and electron motion.
Simulation results show that ions moving at high speed. British Broadcasting Corporation World Service
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"If the lithium-ion transport has been so fast, a number of other issues, we must professor said:" Ceder.
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Them through a small tunnel, their work is the surface of the material.
However, the study team found that access to these channels, have been placed directly opposite the ion tunnel entrance - they do not, they can not.
The solution, Ceder found to be based on material, because it has a so-called "devices" is the end of the tunnel ion guide.
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Prototype battery using the new technology may be less than 20 seconds costs - 6 minutes, compared with the untreated material sample.
Most commercial battery overheating - which has affected the event of laptop computers and MP3 players and cobalt lithium battery composed of the material, but the lithium iron phosphate will not be restricted.
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Even the cheap, lithium iron phosphate has so far received attention because the lithium-cobalt batteries can hold charges for a given weight a little more.
However, the researchers found that their new material will not end with the passage of time the number of batteries lose their charge capacity of lithium-ion batteries do.
This means that the excess material top battery using the standard battery to offset this loss is not necessary, resulting in smaller and lighter batteries charged at an alarming rate.
In addition, the change, because there are fewer manufacturing process standards, professors that the new battery materials can be two to three years Ceder market.