{"id":132904,"date":"2021-12-23T02:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T10:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/australian-discovered-graphene-material-could-be-key-to-low-cost-next-gen-batteries"},"modified":"2021-12-23T02:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T10:23:05","slug":"australian-discovered-graphene-material-could-be-key-to-low-cost-next-gen-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/australian-discovered-graphene-material-could-be-key-to-low-cost-next-gen-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Australian discovered graphene material could be key to low-cost next-gen batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-discovered-graphene-material-could-be-key-to-low-cost-next-gen-batteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian researchers have struck a deal to commercialise a new next-generation graphene material they say could unlock cheaper and better performing lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES), based at the University of Wollongong, say they have discovered a new form of graphene, called \u2018Edge Functionalised Graphene\u2019 (EFG), which is both highly conductive and processable for use in a range of electronics.<\/p>\n<p>This includes lithium-ion batteries, with the innovative graphene material promising to improve the efficiency and lower the cost of battery technology used in energy storage devices and electric vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian researchers have struck a deal to commercialise a new next-generation graphene material they say could unlock cheaper and better performing lithium-ion batteries. Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES), based at the University of Wollongong, say they have discovered a new form of graphene, called \u2018Edge Functionalised Graphene\u2019 (EFG), which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132904","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\/132904","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}