Technical editor, Dr Mike McDonagh takes us on a tour of the reduced-cost and improved-performance highs of bipolar batteries, and the inevitable lows of manufacturing frustrations that come with any new technology.
The first design of the modern battery was accredited to Alessandro Volta and his Voltaic pile. Not a medical condition, but a series of layered cells consisting of a copper electrode, a cloth separator soaked in salt solution and a zinc anode. The cathode is actually hydrogen, which is reduced on discharge from its ionic state to the gas H2. The . . .
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