Photos, Figure of Conventional & Polymer LIBs

Thanks to Anonymous for these advanced battery comments and links of July 23, 2020.

Photos of [solid] all polymer Lithium-ion Batteries (LIBs), co-developed by APB and Sanyo Chemical Industries (SCI), are introduced at [1] and [2].

Pete Comment: "Resin" and "Polymer" is essentially the same thing. A Resin is liquid when pored, then cures/hardens into a solid polymer. Meanwhile conventional Lithium-ion Batteries (LIBs) use an electrolyte which remains liquid.

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[1]  Motor-Fan TECH article "What is an "all-resin battery"? APB raises 8 billion yen
       [US$74 million] for developing next-generation lithium-ion batteries" of March 4, 2020
       at https://motor-fan.jp/tech/10013828 (document in Japanese. Right-click mouse to "Translate..")

       "APB is a start-up company that manufactures and sells [solid] All Polymer Battery, which
        s a bipolar laminated lithium-ion battery jointly developed by Sanyo Kasei Co., Ltd. and APB's
        director Hideaki Horie...."

(a)  Photo (courtesy APB via Motor-Fan TECH) on the upper left, is a newly developed all polymer

      [solid] LIB-module (size ca. 550mm x 400mm x 50mm).

(b)  Photo (courtesy APB via Motor-Fan TECH) on the upper right, is an internal structure (inside of
          "(a)" ) with 40 LIB-cells being bipolar stuck-structured and directly connected.

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[2]  MONOist article “Nissan's "all-resin [polymer] battery" technology licensing, venture to mass production for stationary storage batteries” of April 17, 2020 at    https://monoist.atmarkit.co.jp/mn/articles/2004/17/news049.html

Figure above (courtesy MONOist ): Difference between conventional [liquid electrolyte] LIB (left) and all polymer solid LIB with bipolar structure (right): green arrow (ion), yellow arrow (electron), black line (casing), red line (cathode), blue line (anode).

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