{"id":126190,"date":"2021-08-13T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/packaging-free-design-enables-microbattery-to-store-four-times-the-energy"},"modified":"2021-08-13T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T22:23:13","slug":"packaging-free-design-enables-microbattery-to-store-four-times-the-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/packaging-free-design-enables-microbattery-to-store-four-times-the-energy","title":{"rendered":"Packaging-free design enables microbattery to store four times the energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/packaging-free-design-enables-microbattery-to-store-four-times-the-energy3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have found a new way to build and package microbatteries that drastically improve energy and power density even at the smallest sizes. They developed a new kind of current collector and cathode that increases the fraction of materials that store energy while simultaneously serving as a protective shell. This reduces the need for non-conductive packaging that normally protects a battery\u2019s sensitive internal chemicals.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It weighs the same as two grains of rice but has the energy density of a much larger, heavier battery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have found a new way to build and package microbatteries that drastically improve energy and power density even at the smallest sizes. They developed a new kind of current collector and cathode that increases the fraction of materials that store energy while simultaneously serving as a protective shell. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126190","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}