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Scientists develop next-gen zinc-iodine batteries with 60,000+ cycles that charge in 3 minutes — and they…

Another next-gen battery upgrade has been reported
Zinc-iodine batteries are now more stable
The tech promises a more sustainable lithium-ion replacement

Lithium-ion batteries had a good run, but the next generation of battery technologies are rapidly approaching for consumer devices and large-scale industry use. One of the leading candidates to become the new default are aqueous zinc-iodine batteries (AZIBs).

Researchers from Flinders University in Australia have published details of the latest steps forward in zinc-iodine technology. Prototype battery elements based on these materials can now manage more than 60,000 recharge and discharge cycles, with recharges in just three minutes — though that's for a small battery compartment, in a lab, not a full battery.

As they're aqueous (water-based), the batteries don't come with the same risk of explosion and fireas standard lithium-ion batteries do. However, there are challenges to overcome: these batteries tend to deteriorate as they're used because...

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MIT report says AI can complete almost any undergraduate assignment it sets

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Amazon is buying 2 million Nvidia GPUs for AWS data center expansion

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