(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) Flameproof Lithium-ion Batteries

(FEBRUARY-2023)

Flameproof Lithium-ion Batteries

• A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University developed a non-flammable electrolyte for lithium-ion batteries. 
• While conventional lithium-ion battery electrolytes are made of a lithium salt dissolved in a liquid organic solvent, such as ether or carbonate, which heat up rapidly and could catch fire easily; whereas the electrolyte developed by the researchers, Solvent-Anchored non-Flammable Electrolyte (SAFE), has proved to be non-flammable at high temperatures during tests in a lithium-ion battery. The report of the study was published in Matter.

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Courtesy: Science Reporter