Recycled tires could see new life in lithium-ion batteries
that provide power to plug-in electric vehicles and store energy produced by
wind and solar, say researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge
National Laboratory.
By modifying the microstructural characteristics of carbon
black, a substance recovered from discarded tires, a team led by Parans
Paranthaman and Amit Naskar is developing a better anode for lithium-ion
batteries. An anode is a negatively charged electrode used as a host for
storing lithium during charging.