Thanks to a study in battery research by Monash University and Toyota North America Research Institute (TRINA), Australia's leading universities, high-energy-density battery performance may be improved. Toyota Research Institute for North America, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a division of Toyota Automotive North America Research and Development Center (TMNA).
The new battery materials discovered this time are non-volatile, non-flammable, and electrochemically stable electrolytes that can be used in batteries. Lithium-ion batteries, such as mobile phones, laptops, hybrids, and electric vehicles, rely on technology. Such batteries are mainly composed of graphite anodes and cobalt-based material cathodes. The electrolyte is usually composed of flammable and volatile organic electrolytes. Research teams at Monash University and Toyota North American Research Institute have discovered a new electrolyte based on liquid salts that can be used in batteries to eliminate flammability and improve its stability.
Professor Doug MacFarlane, of the Monash University School of Chemistry, said: "We also found that this new type of electrolyte can be used for rechargeable magnesium metal and lithium metal battery technology, allowing higher voltage materials to be used in lithium-ion batteries to enhance battery storage. Ability. "
"The new material is based on carborane anions and is made of boron clusters. Recent research has shown that such materials are very stable and can be used in chemicals such as lithium batteries," said Rana Mohtadi, principal scientist at the Toyota North American Research Institute. We hope to use the stability of such ions to make lithium metal and magnesium metal high energy density batteries. In fact, this is the first time that liquid ions can be used in magnesium metal batteries. "