{"id":110728,"date":"2020-08-01T16:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/lithium-metal-batteries-that-perform-well-at-low-temperatures"},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:24:12","slug":"lithium-metal-batteries-that-perform-well-at-low-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/lithium-metal-batteries-that-perform-well-at-low-temperatures","title":{"rendered":"Lithium metal batteries that perform well at low temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lithium-metal-batteries-that-perform-well-at-low-temperatures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lithium (Li) batteries, or lithium metal batteries, use metallic lithium as an anode. Over the past few decades, rechargeable Li batteries have been used to power a wide variety of electronic devices, including toys, portable consumer devices and electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>While these batteries typically achieve reliable performances at room temperature, their <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy+efficiency\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy efficiency<\/a>, power and cycle life tend to decrease significantly at temperatures below &minus;10 \u00b0C. The inability to function well at low temperatures is a crucial drawback, as it greatly limits their use in regions with particularly cold climates. The main reason for this limitation is that at temperatures below &minus;10 \u00b0C the solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) becomes unstable and leads to what is known as the dendritic Li plating of the anode in the batteries.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at Pennsylvania State University and Argonne National Laboratory recently introduced a new design for Li metal batteries that could overcome this well-documented drawback. The resulting batteries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41560-020-0640-7\">presented in a paper published in <i>Nature Energy<\/i><\/a>, were found to perform remarkably well at low temperatures compared to previously developed Li batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithium (Li) batteries, or lithium metal batteries, use metallic lithium as an anode. Over the past few decades, rechargeable Li batteries have been used to power a wide variety of electronic devices, including toys, portable consumer devices and electric vehicles. While these batteries typically achieve reliable performances at room temperature, their energy efficiency, power and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110728","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=110728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}