| Liquid metal penetrates into the interstices of commercial carbon cloth. It takes about 10 seconds for them to convert into 'alkali metal/carbon composites'. These materials are, then, used as an electrode to produce 'high-performance metal batteries'. Batteries made out of such material can yield stable, long-term cycling performance over hundreds of cycles. This breakthrough has been jointly led by Professor Youngsik Kim and Professor Hyun-Wook Lee in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST. The new electrodes, manufactured via mass production process, have been also applied to 'seawater batteries', one of UNIST's research brands. Their findings have been featured on the cover of the March 2019 edition of Nano Letters. |
