Topic: How to create a fast charging battery

[Nemesis]

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The report says researchers placed battery ingredients in a solution containing graphite which was later carbonised “to form a dense network of conductors throughout the electrodes of the battery”.

This means that the energy-holding particles of the battery begin re-charging at the same time. With traditional batteries these particles apparently only charge from the outside-in.

The end result of all of this particulate boffinry is that the resulting batteries can be recharged in anything between 1/30 and 1/120 of the time taken to re-energise conventional rechargeable batteries.

I wonder if the charge would not be more energy efficient too.  I seem to recall that conventional batteries have a "back force" that makes it harder to add more charge the more you have.  If so this might bypass that.

[Brush Wolf]

Interesting but will they be able to be made strong enough for vehicular use? Cars in the real world take some pretty heavy jolts.