{"id":110169,"date":"2020-07-19T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T16:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/scientists-create-room-temperature-all-liquid-metal-batteries"},"modified":"2020-07-19T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T16:05:04","slug":"scientists-create-room-temperature-all-liquid-metal-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/scientists-create-room-temperature-all-liquid-metal-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create Room-Temperature All Liquid-Metal Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-room-temperature-all-liquid-metal-batteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team from the Cockrell School of Engineering at the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utexas.edu\/2020\/07\/06\/new-room-temperature-liquid-metal-battery-could-be-the-path-to-powering-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Texas at Austin<\/a> have developed a new kind of battery that mixes the best of both worlds of liquid- and solid-state batteries. The design is the first all-liquid metal battery that can work at room temperature and is claimed to outperform lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Liquid metal batteries are less susceptible to wearing out than solid batteries because dendrites don\u2019t form and damage the components. The only downside is, most of these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentliving.co\/tag\/batteries\/\">batteries<\/a> need to be heated to at least 240\u00b0C (464\u00b0F) to keep the metals liquid and the equipment required to do that is bulky and energy-consuming.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1002\/adma.202002577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Advanced Materials,<\/a> the UT team examined alloys that could remain liquid at useful temperatures. They decided to use a gallium-indium alloy for the cathode and a sodium-potassium alloy for the anode, which was able to stay liquid at 20\u00b0C (68\u00b0F). The researchers say it\u2019s the lowest operating temperature ever recorded for a liquid-metal battery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new kind of battery that mixes the best of both worlds of liquid- and solid-state batteries. The design is the first all-liquid metal battery that can work at room temperature and is claimed to outperform lithium-ion batteries. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110169","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=110169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}