{"id":123792,"date":"2021-06-14T08:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/inventor-of-the-graphite-anode-key-li-ion-battery-tech-says-he-can-now-charge-an-electric-car-in-10-minutes"},"modified":"2021-06-14T08:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:22:47","slug":"inventor-of-the-graphite-anode-key-li-ion-battery-tech-says-he-can-now-charge-an-electric-car-in-10-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/inventor-of-the-graphite-anode-key-li-ion-battery-tech-says-he-can-now-charge-an-electric-car-in-10-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Inventor of the graphite anode \u2013 key Li-ion battery tech \u2013 says he can now charge an electric car in 10 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inventor-of-the-graphite-anode-key-li-ion-battery-tech-says-he-can-now-charge-an-electric-car-in-10-minutes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Morocco-born Dr Rachid Yazami has lived all over the world, thanks to an invention he made in his first year as a PhD student \u2013 the graphite anode \u2013 which is one of the key components that make lithium-ion batteries perform so well.<\/p>\n<p>With electric vehicles on the rise, he believes the invention will soon take you everywhere, too.<\/p>\n<p>Yazami\u2019s story starts in the mid-1970s when scientists knew that graphite could help to form molten or powdered lithium into a usable energy storage material but struggled to turn it into a product. In 1983 Yazami and co-author Ph. Touzain cracked the problem by using a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/0378775383870402#!\">solid polymer electrolyte<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco-born Dr Rachid Yazami has lived all over the world, thanks to an invention he made in his first year as a PhD student \u2013 the graphite anode \u2013 which is one of the key components that make lithium-ion batteries perform so well. With electric vehicles on the rise, he believes the invention will soon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123792","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}