K computer Simulation: Lithium-ion Battery -From a Universe of Molecules to Batteries of the Future-

Have you ever seen the inside of lithium-ion battery? Using Japanese supercomputer K, the 1st supercomputer which exceeds 10peta FLOPS in the world, scientists observed atomic-scale processes at the electrode of lithium-ion batteries, allowing them to identify a material that could improve the charging time, voltage capacity and reliability of these batteries for long-term and renewable energy storage solutions.

This video was created for outreach purpose and introduces how lithium-ion battery works and what kind of challenges the scientists are facing as well as the simulations at the molecular level of the inside of the battery.

The scientists awarded Gottfried Wagener Prize 2015 Energy & Industry.

RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science