graphite li-ion Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:22:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Scientists Use Old Car Tires To Boost Li-Ion Batteries’ Performance https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scientists-use-old-car-tires-boost-li-ion-batteries-performance-20140902/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scientists-use-old-car-tires-boost-li-ion-batteries-performance-20140902/#respond Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:22:31 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49075 You have got to love all those great inventions and technologies that tackle more than one pressing problem at the time, especially when they address pollution and energy storage. The latest technology that does exactly this comes from ORNL, where scientists made batteries out of old and unusable car tires. The horrific image of an […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scientists-use-old-car-tires-boost-li-ion-batteries-performance-20140902/feed/ 0 49075 New Korean Li-Ion Battery Lasting 8 Times More https://www.greenoptimistic.com/korean-li-ion-battery-porous-silicon-20081117/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/korean-li-ion-battery-porous-silicon-20081117/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:33:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1206 South Korean professor Jaephil Cho (and, of course, a team of his students) from Hanyung University have developed a lithium-ion battery that lasts eight times longer than the actual models do.
Quantumsphere, on the other hand, presented last september a Li-Ion battery with a new that lasts five times more than traditional ones.

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