{"id":110112,"date":"2020-07-17T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T23:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/new-room-temperature-liquid-metal-battery-could-be-the-path-to-powering-the-future"},"modified":"2020-07-17T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T23:43:03","slug":"new-room-temperature-liquid-metal-battery-could-be-the-path-to-powering-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/new-room-temperature-liquid-metal-battery-could-be-the-path-to-powering-the-future","title":{"rendered":"New Room-Temperature Liquid-Metal Battery Could Be the Path to Powering the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-room-temperature-liquid-metal-battery-could-be-the-path-to-powering-the-future2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built a new type of battery that combines the many benefits of existing options while eliminating their key shortcomings and saving energy.<\/p>\n<p>Most batteries are composed of either solid-state electrodes, such as lithium-ion batteries for portable electronics, or liquid-state electrodes, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/flow-batteries-energy-storage-option-for-a-variety-of-uses\/\">flow batteries<\/a> for smart grids. The UT researchers have created what they call a \u201croom-temperature all-liquid-metal battery,\u201d which includes the best of both worlds of liquid- and solid-state batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Solid-state batteries feature significant capacity for energy storage, but they typically encounter numerous problems that cause them to degrade over time and become less efficient. Liquid-state batteries can deliver energy more efficiently, without the long-term decay of sold-state devices, but they either fall short on high energy demands or require significant resources to constantly heat the electrodes and keep them molten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built a new type of battery that combines the many benefits of existing options while eliminating their key shortcomings and saving energy. Most batteries are composed of either solid-state electrodes, such as lithium-ion batteries for portable electronics, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110112","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}