New long-life battery technology discovered

[nicnik]

Scientists accidentally discover the secret to long-lived batteries

For now, lithium-ion batteries that decay after hundreds of recharge cycles will remain the only commercially viable option. The UCI research team was testing nanowire, not producing a nanowire battery ready to be shipped to consumers. But the team remains optimistic about their discovery's prospects.

“This research proves that a nanowire-based battery electrode can have a long lifetime and that we can make these kinds of batteries a reality,” Thai said.

Researchers Accidentally Make Batteries Last 400 Times Longer

Even though minuscule amounts of gold are being used in this experiment, that would still make these batteries be expensive to manufacture. Penner suggests that a more common metal, like nickel, could replace the gold if the technology catches on.

The lab's future work will entail actually building batteries with this technology, and further investigating why the process works.

 

[zoiDman]

Seems like a Lot of Good Work has been coming out of UCI with regards to Battery Technologies.

Thank you for Posting this nicnik. Very Interesting.

 

[sofarsogood]

I've been following this topic for years, long before I was vaping. If you want to stay right up to date on the latest dead end you'll never hear about again follow the battery section of sciencedaily.com.

Here is the prize. A practical battery that approached the energy density and cost of liquid fuel systems would be the greatest advance in mechanical engineering since the invention of steam power. The problem is, so far, that Mother Nature's rule book may not provide for this or anything close to this. As a garage inventor I learned this. In the beginning, mother nature wrote a rule book. The first rule is, you can't break the rules.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Perhaps we just don't know all the rules yet.
The world is not flat.
The earth is not the center of the universe, etc.

 

[sonicbomb]

Magic is just science that hasn't been discovered yet.

 

[sofarsogood]

Perhaps we just don't know all the rules yet.
The world is not flat.
The earth is not the center of the universe, etc.

When we thought the earth was flat science hadn't been invented yet and the only rule book we knew about was the bible. There will be incremental improvements in batteries but something revolutionary is going to mean we got some big breakthrough out of the Hydron super collider and some pages of the rule book turned out to be stuck together. Go read battery news on sciencedaily going back a few years. What's stricking is you never heard of any of it because it never went anywhere. Tesla is building a billion dollar factory to make betteries. The Tesla car uses hundreds of 18650's and that's not scheduled to change. You wanna buy a bridge?

 

[nicnik]

When we thought the earth was flat science hadn't been invented yet and the only rule book we knew about was the bible. There will be incremental improvements in batteries but something revolutionary is going to mean we got some big breakthrough out of the Hydron super collider and some pages of the rule book turned out to be stuck together. Go read battery news on sciencedaily going back a few years. What's stricking is you never heard of any of it because it never went anywhere. Tesla is building a billion dollar factory to make betteries. The Tesla car uses hundreds of 18650's and that's not scheduled to change. You wanna buy a bridge?

How much do you think this applies to this situation, where what sounds to me is more like a new technology, that has the possibility of being an incremental improvement, that being much less frequent need for replacement, as opposed to a gigantic breakthrough that dramatically increased capacity could potentially be? Maybe I should've found a different way to word the title for the post.