Currently one of the wishes of many people is that the batteries of the different devices that we use in our daily lives last longer without having to charge them. There are many types of batteries and each one has more or less storage capacity. There are many investigations carried out by many organizations to achieve this and it seems that a new battery model has been created six times more powerful than the current ones.
A group of researchers from Stanford University has managed to create a new type of battery that would have six times more capacity than those used today.
Storage capacity multiplied by six
This battery is called the alkali metal chlorine battery and has the ability to charge devices such as smartphones weekly instead of every day.
In fact, this battery could be used to implement it in electric vehicles and get them to drive six more times before making a stop to recharge it. Therefore, if an electric vehicle can travel 250 kilometers before its battery runs out, using this new model it could travel up to 1,500 kilometers.
The key to this battery is that it uses a process for converting lithium chloride to chlorine. A curious fact is that at the beginning of the investigation the workers did not have the objective of creating a new sodium and lithium-chlorine battery, but rather they wanted to improve the technology of the current batteries using thionyl chloride.
This element is one of the most important when creating single-use batteries. It has been used to create them for over 50 years.
A great find
In one of the experiments, chlorine and sodium chloride were used and it was found that the conversion from one chemical to another stabilized, causing more energy capacity to be produced. It took researchers more than a year to discover this finding.
Finally, the carbon material was found to have a structure filled with very small pores. The hollow spheres absorbed chlorine molecules like a sponge and stored them for later conversion to salt within the micropores.
So far, the researchers have managed to generate 1,200 milliamp hours per gram of positive electrode material. This is a big difference from the 200 lithium-ion batteries in use today. Therefore, the gain is enormous.
