{"id":105245,"date":"2020-04-12T21:24:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-develop-a-better-redox-flow-battery"},"modified":"2020-04-12T21:24:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:24:41","slug":"scientists-develop-a-better-redox-flow-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-develop-a-better-redox-flow-battery","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop a better redox flow battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-a-better-redox-flow-battery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>USC scientists have developed a new battery that could solve the electricity storage problem constraining widespread use of renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is a new spin on a known design that stores electricity in solutions, sorts the electrons and releases power when it\u2019s needed. So-called redox flow batteries have been around awhile, but the USC researchers have built a better version based on low-cost and readily available materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have demonstrated an inexpensive, long-life, safe and eco-friendly flow <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/battery\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">battery<\/a> attractive for storing the energy from solar and wind energy systems at a mass-scale,\u201d said chemistry professor Sri Narayan, lead author for the study and co-director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute at USC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USC scientists have developed a new battery that could solve the electricity storage problem constraining widespread use of renewable energy. The technology is a new spin on a known design that stores electricity in solutions, sorts the electrons and releases power when it\u2019s needed. So-called redox flow batteries have been around awhile, but the USC [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}