Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and Xi’an Jiaotong University, China now present a new way of taking this promising concept closer to large-scale application.

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Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry.

Scientists at Chalmers and Xi’an Jiaotong University, China now present a new way of taking this promising concept closer to large-scale application.

What is also important is that it is very easy to apply the soft mass onto the lithium metal anode in the battery — like spreading butter on a sandwich,’ says researcher Shizhao Xiong at the Department of Physics at Chalmers.

Credit: Mia Halleröd Palmgren/Chalmers University of Technology.

What is also important is that it is very easy to apply the soft mass onto the lithium metal anode in the battery – like spreading butter on a sandwich,” says researcher Shizhao Xiong at the Department of Physics at Chalmers.

Alongside Chalmers Professor Aleksandar Matic and Professor Song’s research group in Xi’an, Shizhao Xiong has been working for a long time on crafting a suitable interlayer to stabilize the interface for solid state battery.

‘This is an important step on the road to being able to manufacture large-scale, cost-effective, safe and environmentally friendly batteries that deliver high capacity and can be charged and discharged at a high rate,’ says Aleksandar Matic, Professor at the Department of Physics at Chalmers.

Credit: MIa Halleröd Palmgren/Chalmers University of Technology.

“This is an important step on the road to being able to manufacture large-scale, cost-effective, safe and environmentally friendly batteries that deliver high capacity and can be charged and discharged at a high rate,” says Aleksandar Matic, Professor at the Department of Physics at Chalmers, who predicts that solid state batteries will be on the market within five years.

The researchers are active at Chalmers University of Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, the Technical University of Denmark and the National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China