Battery research reaching out to higher voltages

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) Lithium-ion batteries running at higher voltages promise higher performance for high-energy applications such as electric cars and power storage systems. But thus far it has not been possible to investigate the critical side reactions at anode and cathode independently of each other. Michael Metzger from the Chair of Technical Electrochemistry at the Technical University of Munich, has now developed a battery test cell allowing to investigate these reaction...