Innovations in batteries are advancing the development of electronic devices, robotics, electric vehicles, and modern machines. However, making batteries safer in different conditions during their widespread use hasn’t been an easy task for developers.
Some battery fire incidents have also weakened customers’ interest in electric vehicles and larger machines powered by batteries.
In this regard, a startup has developed a non-flammable battery. Alsym Energy’s high-performance, inherently non-flammable, and non-toxic batteries are aimed at replacing lithium cells.
Claimed to be a low-cost solution, Alsym’s batteries support a wide range of discharge durations.
The company maintains that its new battery chemistry is unrelated to anything currently available on the market.
Their metal-oxide battery chemistry leverages a mechanism analogous to the one found in lithium-ion batteries, with the working ion shuttling between the anode and cathode.
Although functionally similar to lithium-ion cells, Alsym’s batteries utilize non-flammable, non-toxic materials and a water-based electrolyte.
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