Improved cathode material for electric vehicle batteries packs up to 25% more energy for longer drives

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"adding lithium compound, mix in inert salt, melt mixture anneal at high temperature... wash away salt and anneal again... particle geometry will change. With conventional synthesis, on the other hand, there's really not much you can do to affect morphology," study co-author and Skoltech MSc student Alina Pavlova explained... same energy storage capacity per unit mass as the commercial analogs but had greater energy density, enabling more power to be packed into the same limited space"

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