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January 9, 2013 12:54 am GMT

Nanostructures Boost Battery Life Fivefold


Some of the most promising battery chemistries -- which, in theory, could store several times more energy than today's lithium-ion batteries and cost much less -- have a fatal flaw. They can't be recharged very often before they stop working, making them useless for applications such as electric vehicles. Now researchers at Stanford have created novel nanostructures that greatly increase the number of times one of these chemistries can be recharged, even to levels high enough for many commercial applications.

Whereas previous research reports have celebrated the ability to recharge a lithium-sulfur battery 150 times, the Stanford researchers recharged their battery 1,000 times and still r…
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