Nanopower: Avoiding electrolyte failure in nanoscale lithum batteries
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 18:30
in Physics & Chemistry
It turns out you can be too thin -- especially if you're a nanoscale battery. Researchers have built a series of nanowire batteries to demonstrate that the thickness of the electrolyte layer can dramatically affect the performance of the battery, effectively setting a lower limit to the size of the tiny power sources.