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Describes the mechanism causing the electrolyte cracking and resulting short-circuits (dendrites form at the electrodes and penetrate the solid electrolyte).

Does not describe a way to prevent it, so solid-state batteries don't seem like a realistic product for now.

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>> Does not describe a way to prevent [dendrites], so solid-state batteries don't seem like a realistic product for now.

Every lithium battery in use today is susceptible to dendrites. One of the promises of solid state batteries is more safety, not less.


Agree, but as of now it's seems like it's still a promise, not a reality.

This is an article about an academic paper investigating a mechanism behind this effect, it doesn't say anything about the relative viability of the technology in practice.



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