New lithium battery design charges up
From Boston, at the fall meeting of the Materials Research Society.
Millions of laptops and cell phones get their power from rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.
With all that power in a small, lightweight package, such batteries might also run the cars of the future. Yet current batteries require expensive control circuitry to prevent their highly reactive components from causing fires or explosions. Since larger batteries would contain more of this reactive material, they’d pose even greater risk.