PITTSBURGH – Around the start of the year, Carnegie Mellon researchers used a robotic system to run dozens of experiments designed to generate electrolytes that could enable lithium-ion batteries to charge faster, addressing one of the major obstacles to the widespread adoption of electric vehicles, James Temple reports for the MIT Technology Review. Continue reading original article.The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
30 September 2022 – According to Temple, CMU used the system of automated pumps, valves, and instruments, known as Clio, mixed various solvents, salts, and other chemicals together, then measured how the solution performed on critical battery benchmarks. Those results were then fed into a machine-learning system, known as Dragonfly, that used the data to propose different chemical combinations that might work even better.
According to the study abstract,…