Oilprice, electrek reports that Quanquan Pang, doctoral student at Waterloo University, and Linda Nazar, a professor in charge of research, published a paper claiming that the new technology developed could dramatically increase the battery charge of lithium batteries and increase the number of miles traveled by electric vehicles by three times. Published in the energy journal "Joule".
One of the big problems with lithium batteries is that the anode tends to create dendrites that can cause short circuits after repeated charge and discharge. Pang says he added a chemical compound of phosphorus and sulfur to the battery's charged electrolyte , This compound will work with the lithium metal electrode to form a very thin protective layer to solve the dendrite problem.
Pang, now a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said the breakout represents a cheaper and safer battery that will last longer and deliver significantly more end-use electric vehicles.
Although the new technology seems to have unlimited potential, electrek warned that for lithium batteries to charge faster, or to increase power, or more durable, if as long as one of the above, the difficulty is not high, it is difficult to let the lithium battery with the above All the advantages.University of Waterloo breakthroughs in the laboratory performance is excellent, it is not commercially available, it is unclear.