Month: January 2019

Article Summary: “The Development and Future of Lithium Ion Batteries” (2017)

January 31, 2019 / 1 Comment

The article by Blomgren provides an overview of lithium ion batteries, giving some background on their early development, then describing the current state of the technology, and finally going into their current deficiencies and prospects for likely improvement in the future. Early Lithium Ion Batteries The Li-ion battery was first developed by Sony in 1991, …

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Article Summary: “The Corrosion of Carbon Black Anodes in Alkaline Electrolyte: I. Acetylene Black and the Effect of Cobalt Catalyzation” (1984)

January 30, 2019

The referenced article by Ross and Sokol in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society can be found here. In the article, the authors study the corrosion of carbon black in an alkaline system. Specifically, they use an electrode made from acetylene black which has been labelled using carbon-14 (14C), along with mass spectroscopy to determine the current efficiencies of …

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