Deep Dive: Your Battery's Voltage Feels the Squeeze
from Hastrup Review of Science
The full story behind this week's trailer: Battery open-circuit voltage is not purely chemical Chapters 00:03 — Cold open 01:08 — What the resting voltage is 02:52 — Cracks in the chemical picture 04:29 — The physical idea 05:26 — Method: idealised packings 07:08 — First results: millivolts from packing 09:00 — The formula behind it 10:34 — A word from our sponsor 11:32 — From particles to the stack 12:40 — Full-cell simulation 14:22 — Re-reading the experimental spread 16:08 — Why it matters 17:26 — Caveats 19:10 — What to watch 19:56 — Sign-off Links (some are reklamelinks and can earn the show a commission) Paper: Battery open-circuit voltage is not purely chemical (arXiv) Sponsor: Clothes pegs on Amazon Subscribe (RSS) — boosts welcome via any Podcasting 2.0 app.
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Chapters
- 0:03 Cold open
- 1:08 What the resting voltage is
- 2:52 Cracks in the chemical picture
- 4:29 The physical idea
- 5:26 Method: idealised packings
- 7:08 First results: millivolts from packing
- 9:00 The formula behind it
- 10:34 A word from our sponsor
- 11:32 From particles to the stack
- 12:40 Full-cell simulation
- 14:22 Re-reading the experimental spread
- 16:08 Why it matters
- 17:26 Caveats
- 19:10 What to watch
- 19:56 Sign-off
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