Research to Bring Innovation to Lithium-based Batteries

Phys.org reported that research into the formation of “dendrites,” which cause failure in lithium-ion batteries, could result in the invention of safer, longer-lasting batteries that can be charged within minutes instead of hours.

As quoted in the market news:

Research findings show how groups of dendrites form and evolve and how individual dendrites interact with each other. The simulations also depict how dendrites sometimes detach from battery electrodes and become floating deposits, another potentially dangerous scenario that can cause a battery to catch on fire.

R. Edwin García, an associate professor of materials engineering at Purdue University, stated:

We are trying to define the fundamental science behind these complex objects so that in collaboration with experimentalists we can make batteries that do not have this problem.

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