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Hoping this is a genuine breakthrough, but expecting the first comment to point out some important thing this battery can’t do in the real world…
by jonplackett 2y ago
Hoping this is a genuine breakthrough, but expecting the first comment to point out some important thing this battery can’t do in the real world…
- vikramkr 2y agoIt's a publication from a research group on a new approach they're working on. The more interesting question if there are any aspects of this that could make it unexpectedly easier to translate to the real world lol. The abstract ends with "This cell architecture serves as a future direction for other battery chemistries to enable low-cost, high-energy-density and fast-charging batteries" - it's important fundamental research and exploration. At some point universities should really rethink how they do PR around research - at the least try and tamp down on headlines that read like something out of some grifter startup instead of a research lab
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoAt a very very high level, whenever you hear solid state battery technologies that sound kind of g whiz, a fundamental skepticism you should have is that it seems to be easy to make a really investor-targeted small cell Solid state battery. Most of the lithium-based solid state battery companies that we heard about in the hype cycle: All had really good looking high cycle, high density solid-state batteries that were basically you know the size of a watch battery. But they never could scale. And that I mean they just couldn't make the large size battery that modern EVS use. And they also couldn't seem to scale production in any sort of married form factors of batteries in use in the world. Nevertheless this seems very very promising.