Untangling a strange phenomenon that both helps and hurts lithium-ion battery performance
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 - 09:50
in Physics & Chemistry
The lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and phones charge and discharge by ferrying lithium ions back and forth between two electrodes, an anode and a cathode. The more lithium ions the electrodes are able to absorb and release, the more energy the battery can store.