Electric car batteries souped-up with fluorinated electrolytes for longer-range driving
July 16, 2018 by Martha Heil, University of Maryland
UMD researchers and partners have increased a rechargeable battery's capacity. Credit: University of Maryland
The success of electric car batteries depends on the miles that can be driven on a single charge, but the current crop of lithium-ion batteries are reaching their natural limit of how much charge can be packed into any given space, keeping drivers on a short tether. Now, researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD), the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have figured out how to increase a rechargeable battery's capacity by using aggressive electrodes and then stabilizing these potentially dangerous electrode materials with a highly-fluorinated electrolyte.
A peer-reviewed paper based on the research was published July 16 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
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