Massachusetts Institute of Technology has electrifying news, if you’ll pardon the pun — engineers at the institute have come up with a way to speed up the charging and discharging of lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion, or Li-Ion, batteries are the ones you’ll see in your laptop, cell phone and other electronic devices, as well as electric cars. They take a long time to charge, and Gerbrand Ceder, the Richard P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the institute, found out why.
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Super-Fast Rechargeable Battery Slurps Up Power
Posted by: Richard Adhikari March 12, 2009 12:06 PMMassachusetts Institute of Technology has electrifying news, if you’ll pardon the pun — engineers at the institute have come up with a way to speed up the charging and discharging of lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion, or Li-Ion, batteries are the ones you’ll see in your laptop, cell phone and other electronic devices, as well as electric cars. They take a long time to charge, and Gerbrand Ceder, the Richard P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the institute, found out why.