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lithium battery

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  Today there are different kind of batteries based on the application for which they will be used. Actually. Li-ion batteries   are the most popular. Let's have a closer look to the internal structure of a   lithium ion cell   in order to understand how it works: If we open a battery pack and break it down we can see different layers of chemical compounds inside it. Lithium ion batteries work on a concept associated with metals called  electrochemical potential . Electrochemical potential is the tendency of a metal to lose  electrons . In fact, the very first cell developed by Alessandro Volta more than 200 years ago was based on the concept of electrochemical potential.  Lithium  is the metal which has the highest tendency to lose electrons and it is used in lithium ion cells. It has only one electron in its outer shell and it wants always to lose this electron. Due to this reason, pure lithium is a  highly reactive metal  and it even reacts with water and air. The trick of a lit