Giant snapped up behind cobalt material reveal the lithium battery or king

While we're seeing new battery technologies emerge all the time, it's still too far from a truly large-scale commercial application. In other words, lithium batteries will be the future. Below with power management small make up together to understand the relevant content.

Behind the rush for cobalt: lithium batteries are king.

In order to protect the environment, more and more countries and regions still push new energy vehicles, so it would be reversed transmission lithium battery needs, want to make lithium batteries must be without cobalt element. Although, scientists can change the design or the use of other elements instead of certain elements, but only cobalt element is difficult to be replaced, this is also a year doubled the price of it's the key.

At present a potential problem is that most of the cobalt ore in the world are as other metal byproduct in the process of mining. In 2017, about 69% of cobalt is associated with copper mining, and 29% is a byproduct of nickel ore. So the supply for cobalt element depends largely on the copper and nickel market changes.

For the future of lithium-ion batteries, Umicore materials company boss MarcGrynberg said: no one element is better than nickel element can increase the energy density, no better than cobalt element to make all the energy to stabilize. So the next twenty or thirty years is not going to happen, the lithium battery is still king.

Before the news that the prepared graphene battery has a mobile phone manufacturers, this is a new generation of commercial battery, its biggest advantage is that under the same volume of battery storage capacity is about 45% of the lithium battery, but it can be done in 12 minutes on a full charge, but also in the environment, maintain the stability of up to 60 degrees Celsius. For now, still need to continue to wait.

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