{"id":114976,"date":"2020-10-26T09:37:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=114976"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:46:28","slug":"ucf-researcher-is-working-to-extend-battery-life-in-smartphones-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-researcher-is-working-to-extend-battery-life-in-smartphones-electric-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Researcher Is Working to Extend Battery Life in Smartphones, Electric Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Central Florida researcher is working to make portable devices and electric vehicles stay charged longer by extending the life of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries powering them.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor Yang Yang is doing this by making the batteries more efficient, with some of his latest work focusing on keeping an internal metal structure, the anode, from falling apart over time by applying a thin, film-like coating of copper and tin. The new technique is detailed in a recent study in the journal <em>Advanced Materials<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>An anode generates electrons that travel to a similar structure, the cathode, inside the battery, thus creating a current and power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work has shown that the rate of degradation of the anode can be reduced by more than 1,000 percent by using a copper-tin film compared to a tin film that is often used,\u201d said Yang, who is with UCF\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanoscience.ucf.edu\/\">NanoScience Technology Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_114981\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\" class=\"figure float-left\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"figure-img  img-fluid w-100 size-medium wp-image-114981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/10\/yang_yang_for_web-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"UCF battery expert Yang Yang\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/10\/yang_yang_for_web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/10\/yang_yang_for_web-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/10\/yang_yang_for_web-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/10\/yang_yang_for_web-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/10\/yang_yang_for_web.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"figure-img  img-fluid w-100 size-medium wp-image-114981 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20300%20200%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"UCF battery expert Yang Yang\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20300%20200%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/10\/yang_yang_for_web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/10\/yang_yang_for_web-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/10\/yang_yang_for_web-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/10\/yang_yang_for_web-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/10\/yang_yang_for_web.jpg 1200w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2020\/10\/yang_yang_for_web-300x200.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">UCF nanoscience assistant professor Yang Yang is an expert in battery improvement including making them safer and able to withstand extreme temperatures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yang is an expert in battery improvement including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-researcher-works-to-make-safer-electric-vehicles\/\">making them safer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-developed-method-makes-lithium-batteries-safer-at-extreme-temperatures\/\">able to withstand extreme temperatures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The technique is unique because of its use of the copper-tin alloy and is an important improvement in stabilizing rechargeable battery performance, Yang says. It is also scalable for use in the smallest smartphone battery to larger batteries that power electric cars and trucks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are motivated by our most recent research progress in alloyed materials for various applications,\u201d he says. \u201cEach alloy is unique in composition, structure and property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research was funded by the National Science Foundation through its Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems\u2019 Electrochemical Systems program and through UCF\u2019s startup funding and preeminent postdoctoral programs.<\/p>\n<p>Study co-authors included Guanzhi Wang, a doctoral student in UCF\u2019s NanoScience Technology Center, <a href=\"https:\/\/mse.ucf.edu\/\">Department of Materials Science and Engineering<\/a>, and the paper\u2019s first author; Megan Aubin, a doctoral student in UCF\u2019s Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Abhishek Mehta, a graduate of UCF\u2019s Department of Materials Science and Engineering doctoral program; Huajun Tian and Jinfa Chang, postdoctoral scholars in UCF\u2019s NanoScience Technology Center; Akihiro Kushima, an assistant professor in UCF\u2019s Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center; and Yongho Sohn; a professor in UCF\u2019s Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center.<\/p>\n<p>Yang holds joint appointments in UCF\u2019s NanoScience Technology Center and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, which is part of the university\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cecs.ucf.edu\/\">College of Engineering and Computer Science<\/a>. He is a member of UCF\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/research\/energy\">Renewable Energy and Chemical Transformation (REACT) Cluster<\/a>. Before joining UCF in 2015, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. He received his doctorate in materials science from Tsinghua University in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of Assistant Professor Yang Yang\u2019s latest work is focused on keeping a key, internal metal structure \u2014 the anode \u2014 from falling apart over 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