Overcoming a battery's fatal flaw

Overcoming a battery's fatal flaw 04/09/2018 05:22 PM EDT Electric vehicles, wind turbines or smart grids require batteries with far greater energy capacity than currently available. A leading contender is the lithium-metal battery. However, dendrites can cause the batteries to heat up, lose efficiency and occasionally short-circuit. Using supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, researchers from Texas A&M University simulated the behavior of graphene oxide nanosheets that can limit the formation of ... Full story at https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/-/overcoming-a-battery-s-fatal-flaw Source University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center This is an NSF News From the Field item. Follow NSF:  This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Science Foundation Update · 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314 · 703-292-5111