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Lithium light

Lithium light NEWS & VIEWS MATERIAL WITNESS t seems that hardly a week goes by without some new material being proposed for use as electrodes of lithium batteries. One can’t help Iwondering whether this incessant tweaking can have any real commercial benefits. But battery technology is at a point where potential new markets hinge on the minutiae of economics, which means that every little improvement counts. And never more so than in the case of electric vehicles (EVs). In one sense, the future of battery-powered consumer cars looks bleaker now than it has done for some time. When Ford in the USA decided to drop its principal battery-run EV, the Th!nk city, last October, some people regarded it as the death knell for this technology. General Motors had already ditched their own model, the EV1, and Toyota is now about the only company to offer a fully electric vehicle to US customers. Figure 2 Interplay between opening of one oxygen bond angle T-O-T in the But this is not because motor companies have given up on compression and tension can structure causes the closing of another oxygen bond zero-emission vehicles. After all, the Californian legislation stabilize structures at all length angle, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

Lithium light

Ball, Philip
Nature Materials , Volume 2 (1) – Jan 1, 2003
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Lithium light

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NEWS & VIEWS MATERIAL WITNESS t seems that hardly a week goes by without some new material being proposed for use as electrodes of lithium batteries. One can’t help Iwondering whether this incessant tweaking can have any real commercial benefits. But battery technology is at a point where potential new markets hinge on the minutiae of economics, which means that every little improvement counts. And never more so than in the case of electric vehicles (EVs). In one sense, the future...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2003 by Nature Publishing Group
Subject
Materials Science; Materials Science, general; Optical and Electronic Materials; Biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter Physics
ISSN
1476-1122
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1476-4660
DOI
10.1038/nmat798
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Abstract

NEWS & VIEWS MATERIAL WITNESS t seems that hardly a week goes by without some new material being proposed for use as electrodes of lithium batteries. One can’t help Iwondering whether this incessant tweaking can have any real commercial benefits. But battery technology is at a point where potential new markets hinge on the minutiae of economics, which means that every little improvement counts. And never more so than in the case of electric vehicles (EVs). In one sense, the future of battery-powered consumer cars looks bleaker now than it has done for some time. When Ford in the USA decided to drop its principal battery-run EV, the Th!nk city, last October, some people regarded it as the death knell for this technology. General Motors had already ditched their own model, the EV1, and Toyota is now about the only company to offer a fully electric vehicle to US customers. Figure 2 Interplay between opening of one oxygen bond angle T-O-T in the But this is not because motor companies have given up on compression and tension can structure causes the closing of another oxygen bond zero-emission vehicles. After all, the Californian legislation stabilize structures at all length angle,

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Nature Materials – Springer Journals

Published: Jan 1, 2003

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