US: Argonne advances on battery thermal overcharge

A small group of researchers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has successfully scaled up the production of a new molecule that protects advanced lithium-ion batteries from thermal overcharge. When Argonne materials scientist Khalil Amine and chemists Zhengcheng Zhang and Lu Zhang invented a redox shuttle additive material known as It’s time to log … Continued

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• September 19, 2011