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Carnegie-Mellon U has a new LiPo battery that uses a solid polymer electrolyte.
But a Tufts University prof, Prof Zimmerman, just outside Boston, has made a similar type of LiPo battery with a solid polymer electrolyte. David Pogue of Nova stabbed the battery over and over, cut it into pieces, and there was almost no extra heat at all. The battery continues to work even while it's damaged and cut. If enough surface area is available to generate the needed voltage, the battery keeps working. Zimmerman has created a company called Ionic Materials to develop the battery and scale up production. Article.
See Nova program aired in fall 2016 called "Search for the Super Battery". (This is a great show if you want to learn what's new in batteries.)
Mr. Pogue interviews Jay F. Whitacre, a CMU engineering and public policy professor, about his spinoff company Aquion Energy, which employs more than 100 people at the former Sony plant near New Stanton, Westmoreland County.
But a Tufts University prof, Prof Zimmerman, just outside Boston, has made a similar type of LiPo battery with a solid polymer electrolyte. David Pogue of Nova stabbed the battery over and over, cut it into pieces, and there was almost no extra heat at all. The battery continues to work even while it's damaged and cut. If enough surface area is available to generate the needed voltage, the battery keeps working. Zimmerman has created a company called Ionic Materials to develop the battery and scale up production. Article.
See Nova program aired in fall 2016 called "Search for the Super Battery". (This is a great show if you want to learn what's new in batteries.)
