{"id":111157,"date":"2020-08-12T02:43:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T09:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/storing-energy-in-red-bricks"},"modified":"2020-08-12T02:43:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T09:43:15","slug":"storing-energy-in-red-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/storing-energy-in-red-bricks","title":{"rendered":"Storing energy in red bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tkMZSc33PXQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine plugging in to your brick house.<\/p>\n<p>Red bricks\u2014some of the world\u2019s cheapest and most familiar building materials\u2014can be converted into <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a> storage units that can be charged to hold electricity, like a battery, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>Brick has been used in walls and buildings for thousands of years, but rarely has been found fit for any other use. Now, chemists in Arts &amp; Sciences have developed a method to make or modify \u201csmart bricks\u201d that can store energy until required for powering devices. A proof-of-concept published Aug. 11 in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> shows a brick directly powering a green LED light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine plugging in to your brick house. Red bricks\u2014some of the world\u2019s cheapest and most familiar building materials\u2014can be converted into energy storage units that can be charged to hold electricity, like a battery, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis. Brick has been used in walls and buildings for thousands of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111157","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=111157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}