Japan trial out a new type of lithium battery without rare metal cobalt

Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. recently said that the company's technical staff and Kyoto University research team has developed a new lithium battery does not require rare metal cobalt material, and trial a new type of lithium battery. This is expected to get rid of dependence on lithium cobalt, greatly reduce production costs. Maybe this can be used in portable solar power generator.

Matsushita Electric Company technical personnel and Junichi Yoshida,a professor at Kyoto University, led the research team, the use of lithium and carbon developed a new organic material to work from the composition of the material, capturing the organic electrode tends to dissolve in the process of moving ions [Industry electrical network -cnelc] to the electrolyte problems, the successful trial production of cobalt do not have the new lithium battery electrode materials. The results show that the production of new materials and battery electrode material of the lithium cobalt has the same capacity.

The results also show that this new type of lithium battery material production charge and discharge 100 times, its capacity attenuation does not exceed 20%. The researchers said the new material will continue to be improved, at least to increase the life of the battery to charge and discharge between 500 to 1000 times, and then commercial production.