Researchers suggested that water can act as a vital component of extracting cheaper and extensively environmentally friendly and less hazardous measures of developing lithium-ion batteries.

These batteries act as a power source of numerous gadgets that are being used in regular life. Presently, the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are generally discovered in mobile devices such as cellphones, laptops, and tablet computers.

These batteries are now majorly being utilized to supply power to the hybrid and electric vehicles. With the hike in the utilization, the researchers will wish to manufacture such batteries in a way that will reduce the expenses and will turn the batteries into more eco-friendly sources of power.

The researcher of the project, Jianlin Li, is a materials scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He suggested that the utilization of the lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles is being obstructed by their massive cost.

He further explained with an example that the cost of the lithium-ion batteries in the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Colt is near about $500 per kilowatt-hour. It was suggested that such a heavy cost is equivalent to five times of the target cost.

The targeted cost is near about $110 per kilowatt-hour for an electric vehicle lithium-ion battery assigned by president's EV Everywhere Grand Challenge."

The researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee are now targeting at the reduction of the price of both of these factors.