MIT breakthrough discovery doubles lithium-ion battery capacity

[Nineshadow]

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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are reporting that they’ve discovered a way to make lithium-ion batteries fully twice as powerful as previous designs. This design is in alignment with current manufacturing procedures, which means these double-charged batteries could be hitting the market as early as next year. Curious as to how it works?

 

In traditional lithium-ion batteries, ions move from a negatively charged graphite cathode to a positively charged anode through an electrolyte solution. Graphite has proven to be an excellent cathode because it’s stable and can hold a relatively high amount of ions.

What would be better than graphite is a lithium-metal foil, which has a far greater capacity for ions. Researchers have known this for some time, but the problem is that lithium-metal has a tendency to react violently with electrolyte solutions, causing overheating and even catching fire.

However, researchers with SolidEnergy Systems, a company with its roots in MIT, have developed a new form of electrolyte solution that doesn’t overreact to lithium-metal. With this technology in place, batteries can be made half the size of modern batteries and still retain their full capacity.

 

Source : AndroidAuthority

Very interesting. If this does become wide spread then, oh well, we'll get way better battery life in our smartphones. Oh wait no, we'll just get thinner smartphones with the same battery life as today.

The implications in the auto industry are also pretty huge.

Anyway,I'm not sure if this will be a thing though. I mean, we've already seen headlines like this many many times before. Let's hope it's true this time.

Life span and charge/discharge cycles should also be kept in mind, just a small thought.

 

[NinjaJc01]

2 minutes ago, Nineshadow said:

Very interesting. If this does become wide spread then, oh well, we'll get way better battery life in our smartphones. Oh, and the implications in the auto industry are also pretty huge. But yeah, I'm not sure if this is a thing though. I mean, we've already seen headlines like this many many times before. Let's hope it's true this time. Life span and charge/discharge cycles are also pretty important.

 

This is why I'm glad MIT exist. They seem to be really good at batteries and AI.

[Nineshadow]

Just now, NinjaJc01 said:

This is why I'm glad MIT exist. They seem to be really good at batteries and AI.

Tbh, they're good at everything.

[NinjaJc01]

1 minute ago, Nineshadow said:

Tbh, they're good at everything.

Yeah but that's all you hear about. Robotics, AI and batteries.

[DXMember]

boring... can we do something with nanotubes already pls?

[Beskamir]

26 minutes ago, Nineshadow said:

Tbh, they're good at everything.

Especially their pirate degrees.  https://slice.mit.edu/2012/03/08/mit-pirates/

 

But yeah MIT is awesome.

[Megahurt]

If it doesn't increase cost, then it's awesome, if the cost doubles with the capacity, then it's pretty pointless IMO.

[MoonSpot]

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"With this technology in place, batteries can be made half the size of modern batteries and still retain their full the same capacity"

"...god dammit." - LTT Community 2016

[themctipers]

54 minutes ago, Nineshadow said:

Very interesting. If this does become wide spread then, oh well, we'll get way better battery life in our smartphones. Oh wait no, we'll just get thinner smartphones with the same battery life as today.

The implications in the auto industry are also pretty huge.

Anyway,I'm not sure if this will be a thing though. I mean, we've already seen headlines like this many many times before. Let's hope it's true this time.

Life span and charge/discharge cycles should also be kept in mind, just a small thought.

 

iPhone 7s

hype train! /s

[Nup]

finally, more battery new.. and with existing tech. lets hoep it moves fast! 

[goodtofufriday]

55 minutes ago, MoonSpot said:

"...god dammit." - LTT Community 2016

I always imagine your icon saying your post angrily. It amuses me. 

 

Half the size means we will get even thinner phones. Yay..... /S

[MoonSpot]

57 minutes ago, goodtofufriday said:

Half the size means we will get even thinner phones. Yay..... /S

Flipping awesome eh?  Now all we need are jobs that only run for 6 hours a day before calling it quits.

 

Frustrations aside, this is pretty welcome news.  Here's hoping someone makes a phone with both a large and an efficient battery.

[suicidalfranco]

now i'll wait for whatever 6000-7000mAh phone with the same width of my V10

[Doobeedoo]

Yey, something at least. Oh wait it won't be in near future... So many battery researches yet still nothing on market.

[Kamil]

With all the other times batteries have "doubled" in capacity without significantly increasing the capacity of batteries actually in things that can be bought, I have to assume that we'll eventually get like, 8x battery capacity all of a sudden with some company going like "Seriously, why did nobody do this before."

 

Or it's way overblown and we'll keep getting small incremental improvements over time.

[Rune]

Cool.

Now phones can be even thinner and still have shit battery life.

[LegendKillerRG]

All these batteries bullshit never gets old. What happened to all those news battery tech last year, or the year before that, and the year before that.. Never got into production nor make it lights of day again. This thing wont even come back to news for another 100 years lmao.. Next year be like: "Breakthrough into 3x battery capacity and twice as fast charging!" while the news from 5 years ago about batteries being better still haven't been into production... I'm just tired of hearing batteries news and never seen it happen, you know.

[Master Disaster]

Which way to you see Apple going with this... 

 

Same size battery, more power? 

Or

Smaller battery, smaller phone, same amount of power? 

[suicidalfranco]

5 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Which way to you see Apple going with this... 

 

Same size battery, more power? 

Or

Smaller battery, smaller phone, same amount of power? 

number two. More power is a gimmick

[Thony]

iphone 8 (2017), twice as thin with same battery capacity yay.

 

Meanwhile on Android side, 5000-8000Mah batteries with same thickness of the phone. 2018 flagships start to abandon headphone jack and roll back to 2500-4000Mah batteries because well,iPhone was first....

 

My opinion: fucking finally ! Higher capacity will give us 2-3 days and Linus can finally keep his phone charged for 24 hrs

[Trixanity]

Sigh. If only it's for real this time. I mean at least it's mostly the same composition, so perhaps this time. But I've been hearing about Lithium-Sulphur and Lithium-Oxygen batteries being the next big thing and still nothing. Not to mention all those entirely new battery types that will never happen.

[captain cactus]

Coming to consumers 2030.

[spartaman64]

On 8/18/2016 at 4:07 PM, DXMember said:

boring... can we do something with nanotubes already pls?

and take 90 years to get to market? no thank you

[spartaman64]

On 8/19/2016 at 3:45 PM, lots of unexplainable lag said:

Coming to consumers 2030.

they say it works with current manufacturing methods and could come to market as early as next year

[TheCi]

Why's everybody being so pessimistic? This research stem from 2012 and now they produced their first working prototype. They even claim to start introducing them into drones this november and consumer electronics by early 2017. (source) No other of the miracle battery innovation released past year have even entered the prototype production and the actual research only announced a working laboratory version of it, which media announced as " x research has invented y battery" which interpret as that they could buy y battery almost immediately.

 

Research announcing something != tech company announcing something.