{"id":112649,"date":"2020-09-07T12:26:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T19:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/time-for-a-new-contender-in-energy-conversion-and-storage"},"modified":"2020-09-07T12:26:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T19:26:29","slug":"time-for-a-new-contender-in-energy-conversion-and-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/time-for-a-new-contender-in-energy-conversion-and-storage","title":{"rendered":"Time for a new contender in energy conversion and storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-for-a-new-contender-in-energy-conversion-and-storage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evolutionary search has helped scientists predict the lowest energy structure of a two-dimensional (2-D) material, B<sub>2<\/sub>P<sub>6<\/sub>, with some remarkable features, including structural anisotropy and Janus geometry.<\/p>\n<p>Janus materials\u2014named after the two-faced Greek god of duality\u2014have two surfaces with distinct physical properties. As such, they offer unique benefits, such as high solar-to-hydrogen efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Anisotropic materials exhibit different properties when measured along different directions. In the case of B<sub>2<\/sub>P<sub>6<\/sub>, the ionic diffusion is strongly anisotropic, a feature that can be potentially useful in affordable energy storage solutions, such as metal-ion batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolutionary search has helped scientists predict the lowest energy structure of a two-dimensional (2-D) material, B2P6, with some remarkable features, including structural anisotropy and Janus geometry. Janus materials\u2014named after the two-faced Greek god of duality\u2014have two surfaces with distinct physical properties. As such, they offer unique benefits, such as high solar-to-hydrogen efficiency. Anisotropic materials exhibit [\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-112649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112649","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=112649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}