Mesoporous Graphene for Lithium-ion batteries [2020]
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Mesoporous Graphene for Lithium-ion batteries [2020]
Graphene has a theoretical capacity of 744 mAh/g with outstanding electronic mobility at 10,000 cm2/V and extremely high lithium diffusivity at 10-7 - 10-6 cm2/s, it holds great promise as an anode material for high-energy-power lithium-ion batteries.
But the problem has always been producing high quality graphene sheets as we know that any defect will decrease the electric conductivity, electrochemical and structural stability which in turn has a negative effect in power density and Coulombic efficiency.
So far tests conducted with graphene yielded unfavorable results due to how difficult it was to produce high quality sheets, but in this research, titled High-quality mesoporous graphene particles as high-energy and fast-charging anodes for lithium-ion batteries, they were able to improve high quality sheets yield by chemical vapor deposition using a mesoporous Magnesium Oxide as a template and catalyst to start the process and adding an additional step with microwave radiation.
They basically grew nitrogen-doped graphene within the pores of the Magnesium Oxide template.
The idea is straight forward, you have a structure full of holes whereby using chemical vapor deposition, the nitrogen-doped graphene accumulates in these pores reacting with each other and turn forming a graphene sheet, all you need to do now is to submit the structure to an etching process to chemically remove the Magnesium Oxide template.
Sources
www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
www.18650batterystore.com/pro...
insideevs.com/news/342679/tes...
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Graphene the substance that can do almost everything, but not leave the lab...
@theflyingwelshman5338
4 жыл бұрын
It’s already left the lab. Real Graphene is producing batteries that are available for purchase right now.
@ankitrai1595
4 жыл бұрын
@@theflyingwelshman5338 yes you're right but they are only graphene enhanced which means it will charge faster but doesn't have capacity as graphene it's like lithium batteries with graphene on top..
@Arcamedi1
4 жыл бұрын
Graphene is bullshit, I only believe it when Elon Musk says it
@-Rishikesh
4 жыл бұрын
it's like vibranium, it can solve all the problems the plot throws at us..
@relkasi5925
4 жыл бұрын
It was also put into use earlier on by a company making bullet proof clothing for the rich
So you're telling me if I microwave my phone, it will renew the battery capacity? I'll give that a go, thanks. 1000W for 5 mins.
@zerotwo_.002
4 жыл бұрын
Probably try to remove the battery other things can get destroyed.
@davidelliott5843
4 жыл бұрын
Rob the carbon out of your battery and whack that into the microwave. The resulting fire should be fun especially as your phone now can’t call 999/911
@aspirant0009
4 жыл бұрын
U alive
@LordGryllwotth
4 жыл бұрын
@@aspirant0009 F
@iflnr978
4 жыл бұрын
@@zerotwo_.002 remove the battery and then microwave what? if there's a metal case on the battery, gently take the battery out and maybe add some lithium and graphene. i wonder if salt and pepper is close enough?
This channel is so severely underrated
@FrnnkEducation
4 жыл бұрын
Good. Keep the idiots competing in the comments for comedy at other pages
@asmrgamingOz
4 жыл бұрын
deserves more attention
@maxxwellwalt
4 жыл бұрын
@@asmrgamingOz Totally..
@maxxwellwalt
4 жыл бұрын
@@FrnnkEducation I wish one day you explain your work flow.. Especially the animation part with blander.. Also your hardware and video software. Your work is great, It really takes time but it's worth it.
Nice! I can see you've started to incorporate the suggestions and requests made by your subscribers. You value us. You value our suggestions and requests. You are good man.
you kidding me? the way to fix the defects in graphene sheets was to stick it in a microwave?
@davidsirmons
4 жыл бұрын
My guess is it's kind of like re-joining together the broken areas similar to re-heating chocolate squares that cracked.
@andrewharpin6749
4 жыл бұрын
As graphene is conductive, I would guess that the defects create resistance. The microwaves I would assume create hot spots at these locations breaking the bonds, as the sheet is charged from the microwaves again assume that the carbon ions are attracted and arrange to the lowest resistance configuration.
@Real_MisterSir
4 жыл бұрын
Dude this is gonna become the future go-to tech answer along with turning things on/off. "Have you tried putting it in the microwave yet?"
@michaelprozonic
4 жыл бұрын
is it safe to put the graphene in the microwave with my hot pockets?
@oraora8214
4 жыл бұрын
That should be one of the default tests in any research - just put it in a microwave to see what happens.
At 8:06 you seem to be comparing statistics of an entire cell against just the graphene material, this is very wrong as you include the weight of the packaging (and steel is heavy) in the battery, and not in the graphene. This is extremely misleading and makes me as a battery researcher a little sad. Also at 4:31 you forgot the h in mAh/g. But thanks for the beautiful graphics.
@theunknown4834
4 жыл бұрын
but we want to consider the wall too don't we,
@VyvienneEaux
4 жыл бұрын
@@theunknown4834 Yes on the consumer end you do want to consider the packaging, but you can't compare an entire battery module, packaging and all to, to another battery system when calculating energy density. Aside from that, including inert material in the calculation is misleading. I've only read a few materials chemistry papers, but it seems to be the convention that the efficiency calculations obtained in a lab environment are often ideal and can't be compared to a consumer unit.
@justincoats7236
4 жыл бұрын
aMasheep. I would love to hear you teach. A guy really in the field, rather than a KZreadr.
@Real_MisterSir
4 жыл бұрын
@@VyvienneEaux I think that also highly depends if the development of graphene can yield more of the packaging useless. Right now, the biggest issue with batteries is their size and weight, which is mostly due to packaging that robs space and weight of the actual battery itself. I'm not as intricately educated in this field, but if graphene helps with that process then it should definitely be considered in the overall statistics.
@davidelliott5843
4 жыл бұрын
MISTER SIR Electrons and ions take next to no space. The issue is how many you can pack into the carbon anode. Pack it too full and it literally expands. Add in heating, cooling and lithium metal deposition and the anode falls apart all too quickly. Graphene might provide the larger surface area needed to not have to pack ions literally into the anode. Alternatively, graphene might be flexible enough not to fall apart.
Just sitting here trying to act like I know what he is talking about.
@pladselsker8340
4 жыл бұрын
It makes me look good when my bro passes behind me and peaks over my shoulder
@Mathos1985
3 жыл бұрын
6:06 me right now
*Their trick was* to heat up the Graphene in the microwave :-) Baking oven, and steam cooker next !
Seems your channel is going quite well. Congrats my dude hope it continues to grow
Thank you Subject Zero. This channel should have way more subscribers for the value of the content and animations. Always a pleasure to watch. The pace of the voice is excellent. I always chuckle at the sign-off. Thank you. We're done here 😀
the way you visually represent data is so nice to look at and your voice is great, one of my favorite channels
Thank you for tracking this topic and providing outstanding information.
This is incredible! I've been watching the progression of graphene for years, it's prospects always seemed so great but out of reach. Can't wait to see this highly efficient tech in phones / computers / cars! Thanks for the explanation vid!
I love the quality of your videos, also the animations are always great :)
Salivating at what I could do with batteries like that in drones and RC stuff
Finger crossed for future of graphite. Thank you for your video.
As always animations and graphics are top notch.
What a great channel . Wish I was back at Penn State hitting the bowl with my chem buddies in the 90s with this entertainment. We just had a white board and TOOL.
A 2020 update, sweeeet!
You are awesome. Thanks for describing the details so thoroughly. I love this channel
This is one leading edge science channel on KZread. Subscribed!
I really appreciate your beautiful work! Thank you, Subject Zero Science. :)
just found your channel. It really seems to be an unrealized (by subscriber numbers) resource! Thanks for sharing your insights and information! (just noticed.... you're from CANADA too? EXCELLENT :) )
Love these smooth blender animations
I love these videos bro keep up the great work. lol when you took that breath 2:25
Wow, these videos are really good! Subscribed.
Finally something that can catch my eyes. well done. Wow all the animation done in blender Eevee your are great.
This is cool, I just cited this literature in my paper at UCLA. Spot on analysis.
Love the animations. First time here to your channel
Found your channel yesterday, I love how you put the wild claims of science journalism to the realism test. Aside from science, I love that you say "Alright folks, that's it, we are done here" at the end of every video. It was kinda weird to hear at first, but it adds character to the channel.
Great video. Thank you for the brilliantly presented material and concise information. "The future is here" indeed! This opens great technological improves.
@adunknowng
4 жыл бұрын
Concise, but not layman friendly
Hi! I'm doing a senior design project where we took a look at using silicon anodes for batteries due the high theoretical capacity like you mentioned at 4:47. The main issue is that during the charge/discharge cycle, the silicon has huge mechanical stresses as it is subject to volume expansion of up to 400% so it has a lower capacity retention. The solution seems to be to use silicon nanoparticles. It is very interesting to see a sister project on how to increase the capacity of batteries. I hope you do well on your channel!
Beautiful graphics! Thanks ;-)
Subject Zero : I am improving the graphics Me : This video is a slick boi
Impressive. Now to move it into production.
Please do community post update for graphene updates that you're not covering in your video. Thañk YoU.... You're doing great work...👌
you’re my favorite channel
Good show. Subscribed.
Yess! so looking forward to this I'm commenting before even watching.
@vectteur
4 жыл бұрын
But what is your comment about ?
6:42 vanilla ice ice baby🤣🤣🤣 lol looked through the comments and I'm the first one to notice it
@lorenzonerio8636
4 жыл бұрын
🤣
@series1054
3 жыл бұрын
Cream
What modelling software do you use for this videos? really nice visuals btw. Hoping for more views for you
Nice work sir.
Spectacular
Your logo and copyright on the video look a lit better now ! Still there but nice and subtle
omg how these slides are made? such a good quality
What is the latest news on the lithium-sulfur batteries? Love the post. Thank you!
Pretty informative - when do you expect this to come out in the market in mass production? I am waiting for Electric Planes.
Can you give us the title of the background music you used from 00:05-01:01? I find it very soothing and perfect for work. Thanks and keep up the great work! I always enjoy your videos, although I sometimes need to rewind a few times to really grasp what you just very thoroughly explained... 😅
"All right, folks. We're done here." I see what you did there, Cave.
Great video. Which companies are producing this?
Four times the current storage capacity sounds pretty awesome. Being measured in terms of mass, a reduction in the amount of mass and retaining the same energy storage means vehicles that are much lighter. The current Tesla is 540kg (1200lbs) of battery mass. a quarter of that mass should yield some significant improvements in mileage.
graphene in LiPO batteries, even kinda crappy ones, is fantastic. Hobby/RC batteries are building a lot of momentum because they can be recharged at 3C without lifespan reduction, and they don't sag until you've truly used 95%+ aH
You deserve more subs
Nice one. Thank you!
Awesome thanks!
Keep it going dude
I feel positive about the future now!
2:20 Loved it
Thank you.
Just a thought I am sure has been tried etc , but what about a way to make larger sheets then cut out with whatever process might work (laser , chemical etch etc ) the areas of the sheet that have the lowest imperfections or possibly no imperfections ? Alas the imperfections are probably fairly uniformly distributed in the material. Interested to see if something like this has been done to obtain some useable amount of essentially perfect graphene at least for experimentation and getting an idea of the maximum practical capacity of batteries using this material.
I'm really wondering how one of your video's would look like, rendered in Cycles or AMD ProRender for Blender
would appreciate understanding how the mining of graphite is going to affect the industry - ie Gratomic INC
Wake me when these battery tech breakthroughs become a mainstream consumer reality.
Nice naming scheme for the paper!
@UltraBadass
4 жыл бұрын
Real intuitive and easy to remember
have they tried quasi crystal patterns in the sheets yet ?
Can you also please make a video on PHA from food waste, industrial technology
Wasn't there a video about Electric Airplanes released? Was it removed?
Was this microwave energy tested on a wide range of frequencies, temperatures and pressures for efficacy or did someone just stick it in a normal microwave oven?
@lokeshchandak3660
4 жыл бұрын
seems like a lab intern was hungry and hadn't slept for a week. 5 minutes later, he realizes he put the wrong thing in the microwave.
@narulovechannel2249
4 жыл бұрын
Nick Telsa - think wave, motion, energy and blah blah universe....
@jacobnunya808
2 жыл бұрын
@@lokeshchandak3660 Imagine getting a nobel prize for that and then someone asks you how you devised your ingenious method.
God dammit when i'm done with my degree in materials science there's gonna be nothing left for me to research with Graphene..
@davidsirmons
4 жыл бұрын
Not at all. Getting manufacturing processes explored and prototyped for full-scale/high volume 3d graphene (as in actual solid forms) while retaining the strength of graphene as predicted (5-10x the same thickness of carbon steel) will be hugely important.
@UNSCPILOT
4 жыл бұрын
I get the impression Graphene has a lot more to show us as it becomes commercially viable
@MissfostretTellus
4 жыл бұрын
Then you do not understand research yet. Counter intuitively, the more experiments you do, the more questions you get. Soon you realise that you need 3 lifetimes to figure out a small s niece of the properties youre researching. The funding might dry up thou.
@hardware64
4 жыл бұрын
Go on and work on Graphene 2 then
@waynegnarlie1
4 жыл бұрын
Graphene may be it's own industrial revolution. Relax, your sounding like the head of the US patent office who around 1900 said everything patentable has been invented and that we should dissolve the patent office! You will make great discoveries!
Wow.⚡Amazing.
Is this method of production scalable for industrial manufacturing?
So they need to do with graphene what is done with steel, a quench followed by a heat tempering process.
Looking for your video for a long time now. Great work, I'm waiting for you to reach a Mil
5:40 Wait, so the capacity of the Nitrogen-doped Mesoporous Graphene actually slightly INCREASED after 500 discharge cycles?
@btfilther
4 жыл бұрын
I noticed the same and started scrolling trough the comments.
@SubjectZeroScience
4 жыл бұрын
From what I understood, that happens when electrodes have good interaction, so once the atoms rearrange themselves, they do it in the most optimal way given that the anode has good nucleation which is the case with NMG. The same is NOT true for graphite flakes because it’s all over the place.
Do they still need cobalt?
what will this do for charge times?
At 5:45 it seems that both the high and low quality nmg have increased capacity after 500 cycles. I don't know that much about batteries, but shoudn't the capacity decrease after 500 cycles like it does with graphite?
Given the relatively minimal difference between the low quality NMG and its higher quality counterpart, I'd go for the former at first so as to get the economy of scale going for NMG anodes in general.
Does anyone know at 6:34 if the High Quality Nitrogen Mesoporous Graphene is being compared to the natural forming graphite or Synthetic graphite?
ill add this to the list of the batteries we'll never see
Thanks
amazing video
Ice ice baby vanilla ice reference Also 9:27 intentional or unintentional cave johnson reference?
how fast does it charge?
Why it's not been mass-manufactured? and already replacing current methods?
yo at 5:50 ish did the high quality gain mAh/g????????
So where do I invest? :)
@apstuxa
4 жыл бұрын
@SpinazFou omg sure! What are dividents?
@BaronVonQuiply
4 жыл бұрын
@SpinazFou I can offer you a 41% return on investment. You read it right, I'll only keep 59% of your money and return the rest =)
@apstuxa
4 жыл бұрын
@@BaronVonQuiply lol
@n3gi_
4 жыл бұрын
Invest in supplements and pharmaceutical industries.
A lot we don't know... I am still stuck on how the heck a 1.1 degree angle in alignment can allow superconductivity. There has to be some principles we are missing! Great about the battery tech : )
So, how about the role of the rhodium nano particles for more efficiency.....?
Nitrogen-doped graphene. Now that just sounds cool af.
- You didn't see graphene. - I did. - You didn't. YOU DIDN'T, because it's not there!
@Vatsyayana87
4 жыл бұрын
Are you suggesting graphene doesnt exists because you cant see it? If so, that is incredibly stupid..
@polskiobywatel553
4 жыл бұрын
@@Vatsyayana87 Do you know quotes from HBO Chernobyl?
But why did you illustrate the 18650 vtc5a with a picture of 21700 vtc6a?
The future looks bright for battery development. But the crucial question is how far in the future?
has a batery come out yet
I wonder if this can be used for hydrogen storage. That is one of the problems with pure hydrogen. Similar to nitroglycerin requiring diatomnimis earth, TNT.
At 3:40 did you add a Spanish word? Lithographic Surface Mulijeres?
Don't talk bad about your early videos it's what brought you where you're today.
Battery development is one of the biggest civilization game changer at this moment. High capacity batteries will change the world and enable our civilization to solve major problems. A big amount of money should be poured into this technology even more than fusion reactor projects...
@teekay1785
4 жыл бұрын
exactly
I had thought that MIT had figured out how to make high quality sheets of Graphene a year or two ago
@rolanddeschain9587
4 жыл бұрын
MIT intentionally scuffs research to discredit certain fields, it's an old CIA method. Their production method for hq graphene was unreasonably expensive. They also tried to kill ionocraft by using the least optimal methods - high voltage corona discharge and thin wire cathodes.
Btw, the symbols for watt-hours and ampere-hours are W⋅h and A⋅h respectively, not "Wh" and "Ah". The multiplication dot (or sometimes, a space) is required. Also, since you're a science channel, I'd recommend using the proper SI units of joules (J) and coulombs (C) so that you can avoid having to type the multiplication dot and use proper units.