05-Oct-2021 | Market Research Store
A rechargeable battery, also termed storage device or secondary cell,is a type of electrical battery that is composed of one or more electrochemical cells. Typically, an AA alkaline battery has an average power density of 200mAh. Now, researchers at Stanford University have built rechargeable batteries that can reserve six times more charge than the existing batteries of similar size.
After conducting multiple attempts, the researchers succeeded in developing ahigh-performance rechargeable battery that can operate a mobile phone for one week on a single charge. Moreover, the gigantic batteries designed with the novel technology can propel automobiles six times farther in a single charge than the traditional energy reservoirs. Professor Guanzhou Zhu and Hongjie Dai built a novel chlorine battery (alkaline battery) that works on the principle of a breakdown of lithium or sodium chloride to chlorine.
Dai revealed that working with chlorine is not easy owing to the intense reactivity of the element, thereby making the process of conversion from chlorine to chloridea bit challenging. Researchers said that they have not been developing a new prototype but working on enhancing the performance of pre-existing prototypes of batteries by increasing their power and efficiency. To develop such robust batteries, they employed the principle through which1970s lithium-thionyl chloride batteries operate. The major concern behind using the traditional principle is that the chemical reaction involved in converting sodium chloride to chlorine is far more stable than any other battery-associated reaction. The emitted chlorine as an end-product of the reaction was being safeguarded by tiny pores of carbon, while the battery was still charging. Chlorine gas is then converted into table salt and the same process can be repeated.
This prototype of the battery generating power of 1200 mAh per hour has been successfully developed. However, such an amount of power is inadequate to operate remote sensors and satellites. Hence, further study is required to build such a highly efficient battery.
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