{"id":117420,"date":"2020-12-20T01:42:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T09:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/researchers-debut-whole-new-type-of-solar-energy-storage"},"modified":"2020-12-20T01:42:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T09:42:02","slug":"researchers-debut-whole-new-type-of-solar-energy-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/researchers-debut-whole-new-type-of-solar-energy-storage","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Debut Whole New Type of Solar Energy Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-debut-whole-new-type-of-solar-energy-storage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tests showed that the material was able to store energy for more than four months.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cFree\u201d Energy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe material functions a bit like phase change materials, which are used to supply heat in hand warmers,\u201d Lancaster University senior lecturer John Griffin, co-author of <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.chemmater.0c02708\">a paper<\/a> about the research published in the journal <em>Chemistry of Materials<\/em>, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/news\/study-shows-promising-material-can-store-solar-energy-for-months-or-years\">a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tests showed that the material was able to store energy for more than four months. \u201cFree\u201d Energy \u201cThe material functions a bit like phase change materials, which are used to supply heat in hand warmers,\u201d Lancaster University senior lecturer John Griffin, co-author of a paper about the research published in the journal Chemistry of Materials, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117420","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=117420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}