{"id":118493,"date":"2021-01-13T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T06:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/can-sodium-ion-batteries-replace-trusty-lithium-ion-ones"},"modified":"2021-01-13T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T06:22:49","slug":"can-sodium-ion-batteries-replace-trusty-lithium-ion-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/can-sodium-ion-batteries-replace-trusty-lithium-ion-ones","title":{"rendered":"Can sodium-ion batteries replace trusty lithium-ion ones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-sodium-ion-batteries-replace-trusty-lithium-ion-ones3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sodium-ion batteries are a potential replacement for lithium batteries, but the anodes\u2014positively charged electrodes\u2014that work well for lithium-ion batteries don\u2019t provide the same level of performance for sodium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Amorphous carbon, which lacks a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/crystalline+structure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">crystalline structure<\/a>, is known to be a useful anode, because it has defects and voids that can be used to store <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/sodium+ions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sodium ions<\/a>. Nitrogen\/phosphorus-doped carbon also offers appealing electrical properties.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Applied Physics Reviews<\/i>, researchers in China from Zhejiang University, Ningbo University, and Dongguan University of Technology describe how they applied basic physical concepts of atomic scale to build high-performance anodes for sodium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sodium-ion batteries are a potential replacement for lithium batteries, but the anodes\u2014positively charged electrodes\u2014that work well for lithium-ion batteries don\u2019t provide the same level of performance for sodium-ion batteries. Amorphous carbon, which lacks a crystalline structure, is known to be a useful anode, because it has defects and voids that can be used to store [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118493","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=118493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}