June 23, IBM announced the start of a multi-year research project in preparation for the performance of rechargeable batteries will be increased by 10 times.
Once the new battery was born, it is expected to recharge a battery-driven car after driving 300-500 miles (483 kilometers -805 km) away, and now the battery only allow electric vehicle drive 50-100 miles. IBM Research Laboratory in California, head of Chandrasekhar Narayan said: “We want to find a completely different battery technology.”
To this end, IBM has established a technology alliance, the alliance will manufacture lithium and oxygen combine materials, batteries, electric vehicle batteries more than the current lithium-ion battery materials. The new battery can also be stored in the electric power grid.
IBM also hopes that the leadership of the battery technology, turning the United States from Asia. Previously, laptop computers and cell phone battery breakthrough is done in the United States, and now, Japan and South Korea to become the dominant state battery technology.
U.S. industry leaders are worried that the United States may miss the history of the most important opportunities for technological change, and this is converted from gasoline-powered cars to electric cars change. Americans also worried that the U.S. will be dependent on Middle East oil in turn depends on Asia’s automotive batteries.
Former chairman of Intel, Andy Grove, said: “We lost in the 1970’s battery technology control. Battery technology will determine the future, if we do not act quickly, we will be left behind in China and Japan.”
IBM Cell Partnership at the end of the origin of “unmanned aerial vehicles Challenge.” Now, the alliance unites the United States, including five national laboratories, as well as the University of California, etc., a number of universities. In August of this year, IBM will be held in the battery technology development of the General Assembly, then, about 300 top scientists and battery experts, researchers, including participants. IBM is also seeking funding to the U.S. Department of Energy to promote research and development related technologies.
IBM decided to join the next generation of battery technology was developed by the company’s Almaden Lab nano-science project director Winfried W. Wilcke actively contributed to. IBM, he will lead a 40-member research team.
Why fancy lithium-element air technology? At the driverless vehicle challenge after the match, Wilcke and his colleagues on the entry materials, car batteries do a survey and found that lithium-ion battery has serious limitations, such as overheating and burning. They believe that combination of lithium element oxygen is the most promising technologies.
Narayan said that because IBM in materials science, nanotechnology, chemistry, and of great super-computer-related experience, so the company developed a new battery that has a great advantage. Big Blue plans to use the nano-divide the development of water purity system to oxygen in the air and water and other materials segregated. IBM’s nano-structured experience could also let the battery in the distribution of oxygen to each cell to cell, thereby preventing clogging. Supercomputer can carry out modeling studies, so that a single atom in the nano-through cell membranes.
Narayan believes that research challenging. He said: “Within two years, in order to know the results.” Oak Ridge National Laboratory in nano-materials, head of the Institute of profits, said Jack Wells, to find how to produce rechargeable lithium-air battery is a major difficulty. Researchers at the University of St. Andrew’s team was found that the process of charging a lot of power being wasted. Wells said: “We need to address this problem.”
IBM also faces competition. Toyota also recently begun to study lithium-air battery technology. In addition, the industry there are other new technologies, such as lithium-sulfur batteries.ibm thinkpad r50 battery,ibm thinkpad r50e battery,ibm thinkpad r50p battery,ibm thinkpad r51 battery,ibm thinkpad r52 battery,ibm thinkpad t40 battery,ibm thinkpad t40p battery,ibm thinkpad t41 battery,ibm thinkpad t41p battery,ibm thinkpad t42p battery,ibm thinkpad t43 battery,ibm thinkpad t43p battery.
