Nanotube film drowns out battery-killing lithium tentacles

Battery researchers are fighting battles on many fronts in their efforts to advance our energy capabilities, and one of those centers on dangly tentacles of lithium called dendrites. These form as a battery charges and quickly degrade their capacity, so scientists are coming at them from all angles in attempts to quash them. New research out of Rice University describes yet another promising possible solution, by working a thin film of carbon nanotubes into the battery design as as way of drowning them out... Continue Reading Nanotube film drowns out battery-killing lithium tentacles Category: Energy Tags: Batteries Battery Dendrites Rice University