{"id":121133,"date":"2021-04-01T09:24:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/diamond-battery-powered-by-nuclear-waste-runs-for-28000-years"},"modified":"2021-04-01T09:24:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:24:03","slug":"diamond-battery-powered-by-nuclear-waste-runs-for-28000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/diamond-battery-powered-by-nuclear-waste-runs-for-28000-years","title":{"rendered":"Diamond battery powered by nuclear waste runs for 28,000 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diamond-battery-powered-by-nuclear-waste-runs-for-28000-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Would you use one in your phone though?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A U.S. startup combined radioactive isotopes from nuclear waste with ultra-slim layers of nanodiamonds to assemble a ridiculous battery that allegedly can last 28000 years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the California startup in question, called <a href=\"https:\/\/ndb.technology\/\">NDB<\/a> (Nano Diamond Battery), their product is a \u201chigh-power diamond-based alpha, beta, and neutron voltaic battery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The energy comes from waste graphite that was previously used in graphite-cooled nuclear reactors. The radioactive graphite is encased in layers of nano-thin, single crystalline diamond, which act both as a semiconductor and heat sink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you use one in your phone though? A U.S. startup combined radioactive isotopes from nuclear waste with ultra-slim layers of nanodiamonds to assemble a ridiculous battery that allegedly can last 28000 years. According to the California startup in question, called NDB (Nano Diamond Battery), their product is a \u201chigh-power diamond-based alpha, beta, and neutron [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,4,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121133","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=121133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}