{"id":120963,"date":"2021-03-28T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/recyclable-veggie-battery-could-power-future-devices-more-efficiently"},"modified":"2021-03-28T15:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T22:22:43","slug":"recyclable-veggie-battery-could-power-future-devices-more-efficiently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/recyclable-veggie-battery-could-power-future-devices-more-efficiently","title":{"rendered":"Recyclable \u2018veggie\u2019 battery could power future devices more efficiently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/recyclable-veggie-battery-could-power-future-devices-more-efficiently2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new type of 3D-printed battery which uses electrodes made from vegetable starch and carbon nanotubes could provide mobile devices with a more environmentally-friendly, higher-capacity source of power.<\/p>\n<p>A team of engineers led from the University of Glasgow have developed the battery in a bid to make more sustainable <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/lithium-ion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lithium-ion<\/a> batteries capable of storing and delivering power more efficiently. The battery\u2019s design and fabrication is outlined in a paper published in the Journal of Power Sources.<\/p>\n<p>Lithium-ion batteries provide a useful combination of lightweight, compact form factors and the ability to withstand many cycles of charging and discharging. That has made them ideally suited for use in a wide array of devices, including laptops, mobile phones, smart watches, and electric vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of 3D-printed battery which uses electrodes made from vegetable starch and carbon nanotubes could provide mobile devices with a more environmentally-friendly, higher-capacity source of power. A team of engineers led from the University of Glasgow have developed the battery in a bid to make more sustainable lithium-ion batteries capable of storing and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,4,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120963","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=120963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}