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Nearly everything that people depend on in our daily lives requires electricity. Unlike utilities such as water, electricity has a storage problem. Batteries can be a great solution but are often volatile, with short lifespans, and are hard to reuse. But what if a new approach to manufacturing could make longer lasting batteries with greater recyclability? We’ll explore in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s “Discovery Files”.
Lithium-ion batteries power most modern electronic devices but are made of a complicated mixture of materials that limit the ability to recycle them after they no longer hold a charge.
NSF-supported engineers at Penn State University have
designed new easily recyclable all-solid-state lithium batteries.
All-solid-state lithium batteries work without the potentially flammable chemicals present in the lithium-ion batteries we currently use. This new design uses a polymer layering approach, enabling clean separation of its parts during recycling.
By dissolving the polymer layer, the researchers were able to reuse much of the core battery materials. Combining the recovered components through cold sintering into new batteries, the fully recovered full cells had up to 93.8% of original charge capacity.
This new design allows for more powerful and easily recyclable batteries that fulfill long-term energy storage goals while keeping your devices running safely.
Nearly everything that people depend on in our daily lives requires electricity. Unlike utilities such as water, electricity has a storage problem. Batteries can be a great solution but are often volatile, with short lifespans, and are hard to reuse. But what if a new approach to manufacturing could make longer lasting batteries with greater recyclability? We’ll explore in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s “Discovery Files”.
Lithium-ion batteries power most modern electronic devices but are made of a complicated mixture of materials that limit the ability to recycle them after they no longer hold a charge.
NSF-supported engineers at Penn State University have
designed new easily recyclable all-solid-state lithium batteries.
All-solid-state lithium batteries work without the potentially flammable chemicals present in the lithium-ion batteries we currently use. This new design uses a polymer layering approach, enabling clean separation of its parts during recycling.
By dissolving the polymer layer, the researchers were able to reuse much of the core battery materials. Combining the recovered components through cold sintering into new batteries, the fully recovered full cells had up to 93.8% of original charge capacity.
This new design allows for more powerful and easily recyclable batteries that fulfill long-term energy storage goals while keeping your devices running safely.
