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AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium
(www.newscientist.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
this article is about changes to solid electrolyte only, you'd know that if you read the article. these have less conductivity ( = lower power density) tho
it took 9 months of real lab work by real material scientists just to make it work, things like dendrite formation or swelling aren't part of this optimization (well at least AI stage), the linked preprint doesn't even mention dendrites once
Oof. You got me there lol.
I read the article and this one line stood out.
This isn't new I think. Sodium-ion batteries were already known. Maybe there was still dendrite formation and this recipe might reduce or eliminate that? We'll have to wait and see.
In any case, if it can drastically reduce lithium usage that would be good progress.
sodium isn't electroactive there tho, it's just a part of electrolyte. also dubious if you can make savings on lithium work if one option for anode is solid lithium metal