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U.S. researchers have realized in an electron microscope the smallest battery in the world. Its anode is made of only a single tin oxide nanowire is 100 nanometers in diameter.

As the team Jian Yu Huang of the Sandia National Laboratories in the magazine Science reported, the tiny Dell Inspiron 1100 battery provide valuable insights for the design of future lithium-ion batteries. There were already a major surprise: instead simply thicker as expected, was the nanowire while charging twice as long.

The use of nanowires as electrode material is a promising approach to increase the energy and power density of lithium-ion batteries, thus enabling more compact and lighter designs. It is therefore an important finding that a nanowire anode while charging seems to be growing not only in diameter but is also much longer. Because that carries a potential risk of short circuits. "Manufacturers should consider the extension in Dell Vostro 1510 battery design," Huang stressed so.

The observation at the tin oxide nanowire is therefore an excellent example of why the team in the transmission electron microscope at Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies the tiny battery built. For a practical application is likely the estimated current strength of just one picoampere - not enough - that is one-trillionth of amps. It is rather to understand the physical mechanisms for loading and unloading of new Dell Studio 1537 battery at the atomic level.

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Working with the battery in the electron microscope enables namely to observe the anode at all times in real time. "This is the most accurate insight into the processes involved in charging a Dell Inspiron 5150 battery, the researchers have so far received," says Huang. So you team has observed, for example, move that the lithium ions during charging along the nanowire and a "Medusa-zone" is created. There anode material and lithium react so violently that the wire bends, and even curling.

Such detailed observations on the material and structural behavior of the team leader, according to supply many important findings, such as Dell Inspiron 1520 battery must be designed to prevent failure. In the context of previous research efforts, the whole nanowire bundles used as electrodes, they were not possible, according to Huang. Because that is how "to see a forest in order to understand the behavior of a single tree."