{"id":121908,"date":"2021-04-24T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T23:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/a-strategy-to-rejuvenate-dead-lithium-inside-batteries"},"modified":"2021-04-24T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T23:22:53","slug":"a-strategy-to-rejuvenate-dead-lithium-inside-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/a-strategy-to-rejuvenate-dead-lithium-inside-batteries","title":{"rendered":"A strategy to rejuvenate dead lithium inside batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-strategy-to-rejuvenate-dead-lithium-inside-batteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Li-ion batteries and other emerging lithium-based battery technologies are currently used to power a wide range of devices, including smartphones, laptops, tablets and cameras. Despite their advantages, batteries containing lithium do not always retain their performance over time.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main reasons for the performance decay observed in some Li-based batteries is that the lithium contained within them sometimes becomes inactive or \u201cdead.\u201d This \u201cdead lithium\u201d can cause capacity decay and thermal runaway, which can ultimately reduce a battery\u2019s lifespan and impair its performance.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Zhejiang University of Technology in China and Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S. have recently devised a strategy to restore inactive lithium in Li <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/metal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">metal<\/a> anodes. This strategy, outlined in a paper published in <i>Nature Energy<\/i>, is based on a chemical reaction known as iodine redox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Li-ion batteries and other emerging lithium-based battery technologies are currently used to power a wide range of devices, including smartphones, laptops, tablets and cameras. Despite their advantages, batteries containing lithium do not always retain their performance over time. One of the main reasons for the performance decay observed in some Li-based batteries is that the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121908","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=121908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}