According to foreign media reports, chemists from the University of Glasgow have recently made a potentially revolutionary breakthrough, which will make it possible for future gas stations to supply electric vehicles and hydrogen-fueled vehicles not only in the same place but also through the same pump. Service. This new battery system using nanomolecules suspended in liquid not only allows the car to be charged in a matter of minutes but also produces electricity or hydrogen on demand.
For decades, engineers have been looking for alternatives to internal combustion engines, but they continue to encounter obstacles. Despite the shortcomings of automobiles and diesel, they are ideal compact fuels with very high energy-to-mass ratios. They are very easy to obtain, transport, and can fill the tank of a car in a matter of minutes.
Although hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have many of the same advantages as gasoline-powered cars, their current infrastructure is scarce, and such cars are not as common on the market as electric cars, and then the latter is very slow to charge. It usually takes a few hours to fill. Although these two cars will become more and more popular in the medium term, they are not compatible with energy supply. Now, the new energy storage system of Glasgow University will probably change this. Kind of situation.
The research team led by Leroy (Lee) Cronin, a professor of chemistry at Glasgow University, came up with the idea of a flow battery. This battery allows two different cans of liquid to flow through the same film between the two poles, which allows ions to pass through two The liquid circulates and generates electricity.
The beauty of a flow battery is that it can work like a conventional battery or a fuel cell. It can also be charged by removing waste liquid to replace it with a new liquid. Take the University of Glasgow's hybrid electric-hydrogen battery as an example. The liquid used is a nanomolecular suspension, and each nanomolecule can act as a small battery. At a sufficient concentration, the research team says the liquid can store a large amount of energy and then use electricity or hydrogen. The form is released.
According to the researchers, this new battery can remove the old liquid in a few seconds, the input of the new liquid, which means that the electric car that is charged with this system can be as fast as the gasoline car. The same pump It can fuel two different energy vehicles. In addition, the system can provide electricity and hydrogen fuel when flexibility is required.
It is reported that the research report has been published in "Nature Chemistry".
