Currently, the nation is fully dependent on China and South Korea to fulfil its exponentially growing demand for energy storage systems, secondary batteries and supercapacitors.
Keeping this in mind and to become self-reliant in this area, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee had established an energy storage laboratory which is the first of its kind in northern India.
This facility is used to develop prototype Li/Na-ion batteries and hybrid supercapacitors pouch cells. It will also provide adequate research training to the graduate and undergraduate students and sharpen their skills in this particular area for industrial development. Consistent efforts for the past eight years and support from various funding agencies along with the institute, professor Yogesh Sharma has demonstrated the fabrication of various prototype battery systems. Using this state of art facility of battery manufacturing, the institute is able to produce 2200 mAh storage capacity in batteries.
Recently, the institute has also shown 6V 30 F ultracapacitor made up of unique micro structural and structural properties.
This type of capacitor will be able to replace Li-based system in near future, said Nagesh Kumar, a leading researcher involved in this project.
