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Co-developer of the electrolyte; potential near-term customer for space applications
The best commercial lithium batteries today store about 250 to 300 watt-hours per kilogram. A team from Nankai University and the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology — the institution that builds China's rockets and space station modules — has published results in Nature showing a new fluorinated hydrocarbon electrolyte that pushes lithium metal batteries to 700 Wh/kg at room temperature and nearly 400 Wh/kg at minus 50 degrees Celsius.
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