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Oct 21, 2021

Graphene batteries are still a long way off, strong demand for lithium batteries makes cobalt materials snapped up

Although we often see the presentation of some new battery technology, but want to really large-scale commercialization is still too far, in other words, the future of time will be the country of lithium batteries. The following is with the power supply for the editor to understand the relevant content it.


In order to protect the environment, more and more countries and regions are still pushing new energy vehicles, so this also pushes the demand for lithium batteries, want to manufacture lithium batteries must be less cobalt elements. Although, scientists can change the design of the method or perhaps use other elements instead of some elements, but only the cobalt element is difficult to be replaced, which is also the key to its price doubled a year.




Now a potential problem is that most of the world's cobalt ore is presented as a by-product of the mining process of other metals. in 2017, about 69% of the world's cobalt ore was obtained along with copper mining, and another 29% was a by-product of nickel mining. Therefore, the supply of elemental cobalt is largely dependent on the market changes in copper and nickel malls.


Regarding the future of lithium batteries, Marc Grynberg, the head of Umicore Materials, said: There is no element that can add energy density better than nickel, and there is no better element than cobalt to stabilize the total energy. So the next two or three decades will not be produced, lithium battery is still the king.


Previously, there was news that a cell phone manufacturer prepared a graphene battery, which is a new generation of batteries to be commercialized, its biggest advantage is that the same volume of battery storage capacity is about 45% of lithium batteries, but can be fully charged in 12 minutes, and can maintain a high degree of stability in an environment of up to 60 degrees Celsius. Now see, still have to continue to wait.


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