LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES: Endless Uses

Batteries have often been derided since their invention over two centuries ago. Thomas Edison stated in 1883, "The storage battery is, in my opinion, a catchpenny, a sensation, a mechanism for swindling the public by stock companies. The storage battery is one of those peculiar things which app...

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Published in:Chemical engineering progress 2013-10, Vol.109 (10), p.57-64
Main Author: Jansen, AN
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aluminum
Appeals
Batteries
Carbon
Chemical engineering
Design
Electric batteries
Electrodes
Energy
Energy storage
Failure
Functions
Graphite
Inventions
Lithium
Lithium batteries
Lithium-ion batteries
Manufacturing
Nickel
Raw materials
Silicon
Storage batteries
Useful life
Video equipment
Zinc
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Summary:Batteries have often been derided since their invention over two centuries ago. Thomas Edison stated in 1883, "The storage battery is, in my opinion, a catchpenny, a sensation, a mechanism for swindling the public by stock companies. The storage battery is one of those peculiar things which appeals to the imagination, and no more perfect thing could be desired by stock swindlers than that very selfsame thing... Just as soon as a man gets working on the secondary battery it brings out his latent capacity for lying... Scientifically, storage is all right but, commercially, as absolute a failure as one acn imagine".
ISSN:0360-7275
1945-0710