July 22, 2013

The Battery of the Future: Graz University of Technology Scientists Investigate Extremely Fast Ion Conductors



Only since April of this year have experts been researching batteries of the future at the Christian-Doppler (CD) Laboratory for lithium batteries at the Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Materials of Graz University of Technology – and they are already attracting attention with their pioneering results. Using detailed magnetic resonance measurements, they were able to prove the ultra-fast lithium ion dynamics of a superb conductor being suitable, e.g., for solid-state batteries. Solid-sate lithium-ion batteries are the great white hope in terms of storage capacity, durability and safety. The results of the doctoral thesis of Viktor Epp were recently published in the prestigious Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.a