{"id":113991,"date":"2020-10-07T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/worlds-fastest-electrodes-triple-the-density-of-lithium-batteries"},"modified":"2020-10-07T08:22:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T15:22:34","slug":"worlds-fastest-electrodes-triple-the-density-of-lithium-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/worlds-fastest-electrodes-triple-the-density-of-lithium-batteries","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWorld\u2019s fastest electrodes\u201d triple the density of lithium batteries"},"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\/Klo2vljtLUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>French company Nawa technologies says it\u2019s already in production on a new electrode design that can radically boost the performance of existing and future battery chemistries, delivering up to 3x the energy density, 10x the power, vastly faster charging and battery lifespans up to five times as long.<\/p>\n<p>Nawa is already known for <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/nawa-technologies-carbon-ultra-capacitor\/54972\/\">its work in the ultracapacitor market<\/a>, and the company has announced that the same high-tech electrodes it uses on those ultracapacitors can be adapted for current-gen lithium-ion batteries, among others, to realize some tremendous, game-changing benefits.<\/p>\n<p>It all comes down to how the active material is held in the electrode, and the route the ions in that material have to take to deliver their charge. Today\u2019s typical activated carbon electrode is made with a mix of powders, additives and binders. Where carbon nanotubes are used, they\u2019re typically stuck on in a jumbled, \u201ctangled spaghetti\u201d fashion. This gives the charge-carrying ions a random, chaotic and frequently blocked path to traverse on their way to the current collector under load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French company Nawa technologies says it\u2019s already in production on a new electrode design that can radically boost the performance of existing and future battery chemistries, delivering up to 3x the energy density, 10x the power, vastly faster charging and battery lifespans up to five times as long. Nawa is already known for its work [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113991","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}