Cornell University Develops Breakthrough Lithium Battery for Electric Vehicles

Cornell University has made a groundbreaking development in electric vehicle technology with its new lithium battery capable of charging in under five minutes. This significant advancement could potentially alleviate the issue of “range anxiety” among drivers and lead to wider adoption of electric vehicles.

Traditional lithium-ion batteries, commonly used in electric vehicles and smartphones, usually take hours to charge. However, Cornell’s battery outperforms them all by charging in record time while maintaining stable performance over extended cycles of charging and discharging.

Cornell's Breakthrough: Safer, Faster Lithium-Ion Batteries! #cornell #lithiumionbatteries #evtech

The research team led by Shuo Jin, a doctoral student in chemical and biomolecular engineering, published their findings in the journal Joule. They focused on the potential of using indium as a material for fast-charging batteries. Indium, a soft metal commonly used in touch-screen displays and solar panels, possesses two critical characteristics that make it ideal for rapid charging and long-duration storage.

First, indium exhibits an extremely low migration energy barrier, which allows ions to diffuse quickly in the solid state. Second, it has a modest exchange current density, which refers to the rate at which ions are reduced in the anode. The combination of these two qualities provides the necessary conditions for fast charging and efficient energy storage.

Lynden Archer, professor of engineering and dean of Cornell’s College of Engineering, believes that this breakthrough could eliminate the main barrier to electric vehicle adoption โ€“ range anxiety. With the ability to charge an electric vehicle battery in just five minutes, vehicles no longer require large batteries for long-range travel. This could significantly reduce the cost of electric vehicles, making them more accessible to a wider consumer base.

The innovation from Cornell University represents a significant step forward in electric vehicle technology. With the promise of shorter charging times, the future of electric vehicles looks brighter than ever.

์ฝ”๋„ฌ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฆฌํŠฌ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜์—ฌ ์ „๊ธฐ ์ž๋™์ฐจ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ํš๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ์ด๋ค„๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 5๋ถ„ ์ด๋‚ด์— ์ถฉ์ „์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ “์ฃผํ–‰ ๊ฑฑ์ •” ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „๊ธฐ ์ž๋™์ฐจ์˜ ๋ณด๊ธ‰์„ ๋”์šฑ ์ด‰์ง„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๊ธฐ ์ž๋™์ฐจ์™€ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๋ฆฌํŠฌ ์ด์˜จ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ถฉ์ „ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ฝ”๋„ฌ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์˜ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ถฉ์ „ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹จ์ถ•์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์ถฉ์ „ ๋ฐ ๋ฐฉ์ „ ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๋Šฅ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ™”ํ•™ ๋ฐ ์ƒ๋ช…๊ณตํ•™ ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ๊ณผ์ • ํ•™์ƒ์ธ Shuo Jin์„ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ฑ…์ž„์ง€๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ง„์€ ์ €๋„ Joule์— ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์€ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์ถฉ์ „ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์ธ๋“์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ท„์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ„ฐ์น˜ ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ ํƒœ์–‘์ „์ง€์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ์—ฐ์•ฝํ•œ ๊ธˆ์†์ธ ์ธ๋“์€ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์ถฉ์ „ ๋ฐ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์ €์žฅ์— ์ด์ƒ์ ์ธ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ํŠน์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋จผ์ €, ์ธ๋“์€ ๊ณ ์ฒด ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ ์ด์˜จ์ด ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ™•์‚ฐ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ทนํžˆ ๋‚ฎ์€ ๋งˆ์ด๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์„ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ, ์ธ๋“์€ ์–‘๊ทน์—์„œ ์ด์˜จ์ด ๊ฐ์†Œ๋˜๋Š” ์†๋„์ธ ์ ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ตํ™˜ ์ „๋ฅ˜ ๋ฐ€๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ํŠน์„ฑ์˜ ์กฐํ•ฉ์€ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์ถฉ์ „๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ์— ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฝ”๋„ฌ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ๊ณต๊ณผ๋Œ€ํ•™์˜ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๋ง ๊ต์ˆ˜์ด์ž ํ•™์žฅ์ธ Lynden Archer๋Š” ์ด ํ˜์‹ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ „๊ธฐ ์ž๋™์ฐจ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์ธ “์ฃผํ–‰ ๊ฑฑ์ •”์„ ์—†์•จ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 5๋ถ„ ๋‚ด์— ์ „๊ธฐ ์ž๋™์ฐจ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์ „ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰์€ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฃผํ–‰์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํฐ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ „๊ธฐ ์ž๋™์ฐจ์˜ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ ˆ๊ฐ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋„“์€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๊ณ„์ธต์—๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฝ”๋„ฌ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์˜ ์ด ํ˜์‹ ์€ ์ „๊ธฐ ์ž๋™์ฐจ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ถฉ์ „ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์งง์•„์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์•ฝ์†๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ์ „๊ธฐ ์ž๋™์ฐจ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š” ์ด์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋ฐ์•„ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

(Definitions)
– “Range anxiety” (์ฃผํ–‰ ๊ฑฑ์ •) : ์ „๊ธฐ ์ž๋™์ฐจ ์šด์ „์ž๋“ค์ด ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฃผํ–‰ ์‹œ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์†Œ๋ชจ๋˜์–ด ๊ธธ์— ๋ฉˆ์ถฐ์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๊ฒ์„ ๋จน๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ฐ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
– “Lithium-ion batteries” (๋ฆฌํŠฌ ์ด์˜จ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ) : ๋ฆฌํŠฌ ์ด์˜จ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ์ถ•์ „์ง€๋กœ, ์ „๊ธฐ ์ž๋™์ฐจ ๋ฐ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ๋“ฑ์— ๋„๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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์ฝ”๋„ฌ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต (Cornell University)

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