![[H]ard|Forum](/styles/hardforum/xenforo/logo_dark.png){kind=logo}
AlphaAtlas
[H]ard|Gawd
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2018
- Messages
- 1,713
Advancements in lithium Ion battery tech are largely responsible for explosive growth in other areas of technology, such as smartphones, electric cars, and autonomous robots. But those applications are often hampered by a unfortunate propery of lithium ion batteries: they tend to explode. IEEE Spectrum reports that a company called Amionx has developed a "mystery material" that largely mitigates that issue. A 1 to 5 micrometer layer of the material inside the battery is reportedly enough to make them significantly more stable, while increasing the battery's durability and only reducing cell capacity by "1 to 3 percent". Spectrum says that Amionx plans to license the technology "for use in a commercial product by the end of 2019," and they're trying to court even more manufacturers now. CNET also did an extensive write up on Amionx a few months ago.
Check out their video report here.
Paul Kohl, a chemical engineer at Georgia Tech, and Huazhen Fang, a mechanical engineer at the University of Kansas, both say that Amionx is taking a unique approach to battery safety that they haven’t seen before. Other research has focused primarily on the separator, the electrolyte, or the circuitry around the cell. "Compared to many other R&D efforts, this technology is more pragmatic, and could be more suitable for commercialization in the short term," Fang says. But Kohl says SafeCore won't change the fact that some manufacturers use low-grade materials and fail to implement proper quality control, which makes the batteries they produce more prone to fires. And these manufacturers aren't likely to license SafeCore. "You applaud the effort," he says, "but it's going to be a minor contributor to battery safety."
Check out their video report here.
Paul Kohl, a chemical engineer at Georgia Tech, and Huazhen Fang, a mechanical engineer at the University of Kansas, both say that Amionx is taking a unique approach to battery safety that they haven’t seen before. Other research has focused primarily on the separator, the electrolyte, or the circuitry around the cell. "Compared to many other R&D efforts, this technology is more pragmatic, and could be more suitable for commercialization in the short term," Fang says. But Kohl says SafeCore won't change the fact that some manufacturers use low-grade materials and fail to implement proper quality control, which makes the batteries they produce more prone to fires. And these manufacturers aren't likely to license SafeCore. "You applaud the effort," he says, "but it's going to be a minor contributor to battery safety."
