Degraded Electrodes Observed In Aging Batteries

schliz writes "Scientists have identified nanoscale changes in aging lithium-ion batteries that could be responsible for their degradation over time. By dissecting and examining dead batteries, they found that some lithium was irreversibly lost from the positive to negative electrode of dead batteries, and no longer participated in charging and discharging. They discovered that finely-structured nanomaterials on dead batteries' electrodes had coarsened in size, and theorise that the coarsening of the cathode may be responsible for the loss of lithium."

Planned obsolescence

[EmagGeek]

I thought that's the way they were engineered - to generate revenue by way of having to replace them annually.

Re:Planned obsolescence

[Anonymous Coward]

I read it as

Deranged Electrodes Observed In Aging Batteries

I guess that's what happens when you get older and are bipolar.

Re:Solar backup

[isama]

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Re:Planned obsolescence

[Anonymous Coward]

We don't count Apple products in the realms of Progress.

Re:Keyword slapping strategy.

[Rogerborg]

Yeah, I wish I'd had one of those fancy-pants "nanoscopes" to look at slides of fly wings and flower pollen when I was a lad - we had to make do with primitive "microscopes".