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In its journey, ITB has executed its innovation and entrepreneurship that bring the impacts on society through technology and build synergy between university, industry, government, and community. In this era of rapid technological transformations, global competition, and research budget constraints, ITB has to give its best efforts to align the focus of its research and innovation in improving the third generation electric battery research. ITB is assigned to lead several companies of electric technology development that includes research on third-generation batteries. This consortium involves 50 ITB researchers and 50 researchers from the other six partners which include Sriwijaya University and Diponegoro University. MIT is the foreign partner chosen for advanced technology in electric vehicle batteries as said by Sigit PujiSantosa, director of the Center for Collaboration Research (CCR). This is a joint research project which is a part of Sustainable Higher education research alliances that is funded by United States agency.
According to tempo.co, the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) upon researching and developing the third generation battery automation. This kind of battery is lighter, higher energy capacity, and safe from the risk of catching fire and it is known to be a solid state battery which is planned to be applied or implemented in cars, motorcycles, and other battery-powered electronic devices. Solid state batteries offer more stability based on the electrolyte transmissions. These batteries use sulfide superionic as conductors and can be charged or discharged in just seven minutes, and this character makes it more ideal from all other batteries. As this is in a solid state, it is more stable and profoundly safer than other current batteries.
The manufacturers should build safe and environment-friendly batteries with greater energy and power, in conjunction with a long life. For this, new high-performance materials are to be chosen which specifically include anode materials based on different carbon varieties such as kishgraphites and nanostructured carbons including carbon nanotubes. Several lithium-alloying intermetallic, as well as thin-film silicon-based anodes, are also on the horizon. Third-generation batteries show significant promise. Despite some industry skepticism, it is believed that over time they will eventually replace some, if not all, current-generation Li-ion batteries. Improved battery technology performance will make batteries more suitable for mainstream applications in cars, cordless devices, and aviation.
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