Chemists have mapped electric shock on battery electrodes, providing a simple tool to design long-lived battery electrodes.
As you charge and recharge your phone and laptop batteries, slowly the electrodes degrade and eventually you have to replace the battery, but why and how does this happen?
Researchers from MIT have now gained new information about this process, which is the electrical equivalent of getting potholes in the road in the winter. This knowledge allows new design guidelines to be written and could spell the end to replacing your laptop battery when it gets old.
Read the paper from EES:
Design Criteria for Electrochemical Shock Resistant Battery Electrodes
William H Woodford, W. Craig Carter and Yet-Ming Chiang
Energy Environ. Sci., 2012, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE21874G
