Solid electrolytes are very important next step in the li-ion development.
And specifically ones with stable anodes. Not li-metal ones that is.
When the whole cell is solid there’s just intercalation going on in every
stage when the ion moves. Meaning there is no chemical decomposition
happening.
Linden's Handbook of Batteries
https://a.co/d/9gKbVbn
That will give you an idea about the depth of past and near current battery
development.
This is important, and scads of work is done on it. But, you have to dive
into the scientific literature. Lots of papers are out there in the field
of
I'm not chemist, but I would suspect that batteries go "bad" for lots of
different reasons. I know a few tidbits here and there, but it seems in
general chemicalreactions are not perfectly reversable because of unwanted
byproducts and side effects. I don't believe this can ever be
Solid electrolyte can basically last ”forever”. So this is not actually
”news”. :)
Reason why cells go broken today is the liquid electrolyte and passivation
layers it needs. Function of time and temperature and voltage.
In theory LFP cell with solid, e.g. cellulose, electrolyte can provide
Normally, I would bypass something like this except that it is from
respected universities and their battery shows with no signs of
degeneration after 400 cycles. Here is the title and link and first
paragraph:
Scientists invent ‘game-changing’ electric car battery that never
loses charge
