'Chewing Gum' To Make Your Laptop Battery Safer
It is twice as sticky as real gum and adheres very well to the other battery components.
"The material, which is a hybrid of liquid and solid, contains liquid electrolyte material that is hanging on solid particles of wax or a similar material," informed Zhong.
Current can easily travel through the liquid parts of the electrolyte, but the solid particles act as a protective mechanism.
"If the material gets too hot, the solid melts and easily stops the electric conduction, preventing any fire hazard," she added.
The electrolyte material is also flexible and lightweight, which could be useful in future flexible electronics.
You can stretch, smash and twist it, and it continues to conduct electricity nearly as well as liquid electrolytes.
Furthermore, the gummy electrolyte should be easy to assemble into current battery designs, said Zhong.
The researchers are working to combine their technologies into safer, flexible low-cost batteries, said the study published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.
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