{"id":121686,"date":"2021-04-17T11:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/new-type-of-battery-can-charge-10x-faster-than-lithium-ion-models"},"modified":"2021-04-17T11:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:22:37","slug":"new-type-of-battery-can-charge-10x-faster-than-lithium-ion-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/new-type-of-battery-can-charge-10x-faster-than-lithium-ion-models","title":{"rendered":"New Type of Battery Can Charge 10x Faster Than Lithium-Ion Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-type-of-battery-can-charge-10x-faster-than-lithium-ion-models2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are basically everywhere, powering everything from smartphones to notebooks, earbuds to gaming devices, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/tesla-just-announced-a-giant-new-battery\">so much more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But while the convenience of this ubiquitous (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-for-rechargeable-lithium-ion-batteries\">Nobel Prize-winning<\/a>) battery chemistry has radically changed the way we use and charge portable technology, lithium-ion is far from perfect.<\/p>\n<p>The performance of lithium-ion batteries degrades over time, and sometimes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-why-batteries-have-started-catching-fire-so-often\">flaws in the battery cells<\/a> can lead to overheating and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-proof-you-should-never-bite-a-smartphone-battery-lithium-rechargeable-explosion\">dangerous fire hazards<\/a> \u2013 with companies sometimes having to issue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/samsung-is-recalling-2-5-million-galaxy-note-7-smartphones-over-exploding-battery-fears\">urgent recalls<\/a> for products that can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-why-hoverboards-are-so-dangerous\">explode without warning<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are basically everywhere, powering everything from smartphones to notebooks, earbuds to gaming devices, and so much more. But while the convenience of this ubiquitous (and Nobel Prize-winning) battery chemistry has radically changed the way we use and charge portable technology, lithium-ion is far from perfect. The performance of lithium-ion batteries degrades over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121686","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}