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    The Holy Grail Is Here: A Stable, Solid-State, Lithium-Metal Battery
    It could fully charge electric vehicles in just 10 minutes.

    Popular Mechanics
    By Caroline Delbert MAY 17, 2021

    A new paper presents a stable lithium-metal battery design for the first time.

    Lithium-ion batteries have flaws that lithium-metal batteries could fix.

    This new battery adds a self-healing technology that will close cracks where dendrites form.

    Lithium-ion batteries are the backbone of most of today’s electronic devices, including electric vehicles. But for all of their game-changing benefits, the batteries still have an inherent flaw: dendrites. These thin, snaking, tree-like pieces of lithium form sharp points and end up piercing the battery, causing short circuits and other problems. This ultimately shortens the lifespan of lithium-ion batteries, and leaves major room for improvement.

    Scientists have focused, then, on studying lithium dendrite formation to see how they can make better, longer-lasting batteries for electric vehicles. Now, Harvard University researchers say they have the answer: a lithium-metal battery made of a solid-state metal material rather than lithium-ion, eliminating the pesky dendrites and offering more structural stability than a battery consisting of liquid or graphite materials.

    While the green electrolyte is more stable with lithium, it’s also more prone to dendrites. The brown electrolyte is less stable with lithium, but is immune to dendrites. Here, the dendrites grow through the graphite and green electrolyte, but stop when they hit the brown electrolyte.

    Think of the new battery like a BLT: “Our multilayer design has the structure of a less-stable electrolyte sandwiched between more-stable solid electrolytes, which prevents any lithium dendrite growth,” the scientists say in their new study, which appears in Nature.

    Making the battery out of mostly solid materials helps prevent dendrite formation in more than one way. Mechanically, it’s far easier to crack a thin shell of metal or ceramic than to penetrate a solid battery anode, for example. But this design goes a step further, chemically accounting for any cracks with “dynamically generated decompositions” that fill and stop potential dendrites, the scientists say.

    Think of the new battery like a BLT: The bread is the lithium-metal anode, the lettuce is graphite, the tomatoes are the first electrolyte, and the bacon is the second electrolyte. Add another layer of the first electrolyte, and top it with a cathode.

    What changes if we switch from lithium-ion batteries to lithium-metal ones? Well, lithium-metal batteries are lighter, more powerful, and longer-lasting ... in a perfect world. Unfortunately, when scientists have experimented with lithium-metal batteries in the past, they’ve been extremely unstable and often exploded. That’s why scientists have long clamored to stabilize the lithium-metal battery and bring a viable commercial version to the marketplace.

    Reducing or eliminating dendrite formation is critical to any of these designs, because removing the most volatile portion of the battery’s life greatly reduces any adverse outcomes. The Harvard scientists tested their battery over 10,000 charge cycles—competitive with the lifetime of a conventional fossil fuel car and a huge step forward. They found their design still held 82 percent of its charge after 10,000 cycles.

    From Harvard’s press release:

    “This battery technology could increase the lifetime of electric vehicles to that of the gasoline cars—10 to 15 years—without the need to replace the battery. With its high current density, the battery could pave the way for electric vehicles that can fully charge within 10 to 20 minutes.”

    What does this all mean for the future of batteries and electric vehicles? If the design works as planned, it could singlehandedly open the door for lithium-metal batteries in the marketplace. For electric vehicles, the cost of batteries alone is thousands of dollars, and reducing the failure rate, as well as the weight of the batteries, could create a huge savings.

    “A lithium-metal battery is considered the holy grail for battery chemistry because of its high capacity and energy density,” Harvard’s Xin Lee told the Independent. “This proof-of-concept design shows that lithium-metal solid-state batteries could be competitive with commercial lithium-ion batteries.”

    https://www.popularmechanics.com/sci...tric-vehicles/

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    Glad to see they are also Anti Dendrite up at Haaavahd...

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    Will there be a boat version?

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    Those pesky aliens probably brought them here

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    I love the fully charged in 20min deal.

    How big are the conductors that feed these battery banks?
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    Quote Originally Posted by turbo View Post
    I love the fully charged in 20min deal.

    How big are the conductors that feed these battery banks?
    Who you asking? The regular old batteries all operate by magic as far as I am concerned...

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    I saw this on another forum, take it for what its worth

    "Imagine a “superbattery” that:
    Charges in eight minutes — not hours.
    Lasts 9,200 miles between charges.

    Sounds wonderful, but do the math.

    A Tesla Model 3 has a nominal range of 350 miles. Charging it at home on a 50 amp, 220 VAC circuit takes 9 hours.

    9200 miles is 26 times the range of Tesla Model 3. That requires 26 times the amp-hours of charging. To charge that battery in 8 minutes instead of 9 hours would require a 220VAC circuit with a current rating of 87,750 amps. The charger that can do that probably weighs more than the car. No home circuit could support it. Fully recharging at 50 amps on a home charger for 10 hours/day would take over 3 weeks. There's good reason to question the information about those batteries."

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    I take it you've never seen Independence Day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank1 View Post
    do the math.
    No, and you can 't make me.

    However, I question the validity of everything that comes out of Harvard...

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