电池技术的突破并不一定想当然就意味着能制造更好的电池.pdfVIP

Breakthroughs don’t always make better batteries 电池技术的突破并不一定想当然就意味着能制造更好的电池 You need balls of steel, deep pockets, a crystal ball and a touch of good fortune to bring a new battery development to market. Barrie Lawson explains why. 要想向市场推出一种新的电池，你必须得意志坚定，实力雄厚， 还有不仅能预测未来，还得正好碰见好运气。Barrie Lawson 给你解 释为什么。 Breakthroughs in battery technology stories are as common as ‘magic bullets ’ for cancer cure stories were in the mainstream media a decade ago. It doesn’t happen like that in Medicine and it certainly doesn’t happen in the battery world. Applications engineers in electronics still wonder why. If that ’s your role in business, this article is for you. 电池领域的技术突破就像十年以前主流媒体报道的治疗癌症的 “良方”一样普遍。但是就像至今癌症并不能治愈一样，电池产品也 并没有实质性技术改进。电子应用工程师们对此仍然很困惑，如果这 是你研究的领域，那么这篇文章就是写给你的。 The recent reversals in fortune of US lithium-ion cell maker A123 show that the best laid plans of mice and battery makers often go awry. 美国锂离子电池制造商 A123 最近运气的逆转说明了即使是再完 美的计划也会出现状况。 Over two billion batteries, worth over US$30 billion, are produced every year (2012) for use in laptop computers, mobile phones, cameras, consumer electronics products and all the huge rewards await those who can deliver better batteries for these products and everything else you can imagine. 每年 （2012 ）会有超过 20 亿只价值超过 300 亿美金的电池被制 造出来用于笔记本电脑，移动电话，相机，以及其他消费类电子产品， 所有丰厚的回报正在等待那些能为这些产品以及你能想象的到的其 他产品，提供更好电池的人。 In response, the challenge has been taken up by academic and industrial research institutions all over the world and there is a regular flow of announcements about minor improvements in battery technology accompanied from time to time by claims of more significant breakthroughs. 就这样，全球范围内的学术和产业研究机构接受了挑战，经常听 到他们宣称在电池技术领域有了小幅的进展，甚至时不时地能有一些 宣称说有了重大地突破。 Newspapers and even BEST m