New Technology - Solid State Battery

[BoraMurdar]

AUSTIN, Texas — A team of engineers led by 94-year-old John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has developed the first all-solid-state battery cells that could lead to safer, faster-charging, longer-lasting rechargeable batteries for handheld mobile devices, electric cars and stationary energy storage.

Goodenough’s latest breakthrough, completed with Cockrell School senior research fellow Maria Helena Braga, is a low-cost all-solid-state battery that is noncombustible and has a long cycle life (battery life) with a high volumetric energy density and fast rates of charge and discharge. The engineers describe their new technology in a recent paper published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science.

 

[SHvFl]

There are many new designs that promise better battery life, lower cost and higher capacity. The issue is that most of those for one or the other reason are not pushed to the market or the push will take a lot of years to happen. I could explain the reasoning behind it but i don't see the point. If you want a tldr though money make batteries and batteries make money.

 

[Deletedmessiah]

So another battery technology that we might never hear of again. So many breakthrough news but none comes to the market.

 

[Winter Soldier]

Thanks for the interesting article
Often we don't give the proper attention to the battery if we want to consider the characteristics of a device, but really the engine that moves everything is just the battery and its quality.
Interesting news, and also I do hope the adoption of these new types of battery could fix those security flaws related to the explosive nature of the liquid type battery and of the problems linked to it.