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Old is totally new again Scientists have given a 21st-century makeover to the nickel-iron battery, a gadget conceived by Thomas Edison during the era from the steam engine.
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Its advantage is the fact that materials are abundant and cheap and also the solution is relatively harmless when compared with toxic lead-acid batteries.
Nickel-iron batteries were marketed for cars until the 1920s, but then dropped out of the picture because they were not as powerful as petrol and diesel fuel engines.
Another downside was they took a long time to recharge.
They remained a robust backup power source for railways, mines and other industries before falling out of favour in the mid-1970s. Today, only a handful of companies result in the batteries, mainly to keep surplus electricity from solar and wind turbines and release it during periods of peak demand.
Utilising nanotechnologyThe new-generation battery comes thanks to a team led by Hongjie Dai, a chemistry professor at Stanford University in California.
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"Coupling the nickel and iron particles towards the carbon substrate allows electrical charges to move quickly between your electrodes and also the outside circuit," says Dai.
"The result is an ultra-fast version of the nickel-iron battery that's capable of charging and discharging in seconds,[url=http://peutereyjacketsuppliers.webmium.com/][b]Peuterey men[/b][/url]."
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"But it could assist lithium-ion batteries (in cars) giving them a real power boost for faster acceleration." Battery could then be replenished from regenerative braking.
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The prototype comes with a hitch, in that after plenty of cycles of recharging, it no more supports the charge so well. After 800 cycles, the charge decays by in regards to a fifth,[url=http://monclerjacketsformenssale.albirank.net/][b]http://monclerjacketsformenssale.albirank.net/[/b][/url], an issue the Stanford team hopes to fix.
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