Aluminum battery tech safer, last longer and charges faster than Li-Ion

No-fire causing and no environment-damaging aluminium ion battery technology is invented by researchers at Stanford University. This team of researchers have published an article titled "An ultrafast rechargeable aluminum-ion battery," which will be published in the April 6 advance online edition of the journal Nature. The aluminum metal-based battery doesn't cause an explosion or fire in abnormal usage, as per its inventors. This aluminium-based battery technology is rated as better technology than lithium ion as well as alkaline batteries on various aspects of battery performance including environment impact. "We have developed a rechargeable aluminum battery that may replace existing storage devices, such as alkaline batteries, which are bad for the environment, and lithium-ion batteries, which occasionally burst into flames," said Hongjie Dai, a professor of chemistry at Stanford, who is part of this research. "Our new battery won't catch fire, even if you drill through it." Aluminum doesn't cost high and also has low flammability feature and supports high-charge storage capacity. The key challenge in developing aluminum-ion battery is in finding materials capable of producing sufficient voltage after repeated cycles of charging and discharging. Solution invented by Stanford researchers is using graphite as cathode. "People have tried different kinds of mate...