They definitely knew batteries cycling causes degradation, but I think this is saying they found additional information on how it happens which might lead to future designs possibly mitigating this cause.
One of the key discoveries was the identification of “strain cascades” —a chain reaction in which stress builds up in one part of the electrode and spreads to neighboring regions.
Yeah I wish the article went into more of those details instead of trying to create an analogy to breathing and the widely known facts about expansion during charging.
They definitely knew batteries cycling causes degradation, but I think this is saying they found additional information on how it happens which might lead to future designs possibly mitigating this cause.
Yeah I wish the article went into more of those details instead of trying to create an analogy to breathing and the widely known facts about expansion during charging.