{"id":123411,"date":"2021-06-04T16:51:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/ultra-thin-lithium-offers-a-solid-platform-for-high-capacity-batteries"},"modified":"2021-06-04T16:51:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:51:50","slug":"ultra-thin-lithium-offers-a-solid-platform-for-high-capacity-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/ultra-thin-lithium-offers-a-solid-platform-for-high-capacity-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-thin lithium offers a solid platform for high-capacity batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultra-thin-lithium-offers-a-solid-platform-for-high-capacity-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in South Korea have made a breakthrough in battery research that could help us bust through a key <a class=\"\" href=\" https:\/\/newatlas.com\/science\/deakin-solid-state-battery-polymer-electrolyte\/\">bottleneck<\/a> in energy storage. The team\u2019s advance overcomes a technical issue that has held back highly promising lithium-metal battery architecture and could pave the way for batteries with as much as 10 times the capacity of today\u2019s devices.<\/p>\n<p>The reason lithium-metal batteries hold so much promise is because of the excellent energy density of pure lithium metal. Scientists hope to swap out the graphite used for the anode in today\u2019s lithium batteries for this \u201c<a class=\"\" href=\" https:\/\/newatlas.com\/energy\/battery-design-breakthrough-dream-material-lithium-metal\/\">dream material<\/a>,\u201d though this comes with some complicated problems to solve.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key issues relates to needle-like structures called dendrites, which form on the anode surface as the battery is charged. These penetrate the barrier between the anode and the battery\u2019s other electrode, the cathode, and quickly cause the battery to short-circuit, fail, or even catch fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in South Korea have made a breakthrough in battery research that could help us bust through a key bottleneck in energy storage. The team\u2019s advance overcomes a technical issue that has held back highly promising lithium-metal battery architecture and could pave the way for batteries with as much as 10 times the capacity of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":635,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123411","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\/635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}