{"id":133550,"date":"2022-01-04T09:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/stanford-researchers-bring-dead-lithium-back-to-life"},"modified":"2022-01-04T09:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:23:44","slug":"stanford-researchers-bring-dead-lithium-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/stanford-researchers-bring-dead-lithium-back-to-life","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Researchers Bring \u201cDead\u201d Lithium Back To Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stanford-researchers-bring-dead-lithium-back-to-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the key problems with lithium-ion batteries is that, over time, they do lose some of their battery life. This is why recycling them is so important. But what if there was a way to bring them back to life? And by this, I mean make them as good as new without recycling them. What if you could not only bring them back to life but extend the battery\u2019s life by up to 30%?<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Stanford University along with the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory may have done just that. No, this isn\u2019t the beginning of a zombie horror apocalypse type of story, but it is a potentially revolutionary breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarcongress.com\/2021\/12\/20211223-slac.html\"><em>Green Car Congress<\/em><\/a> reports that the researchers might have found a way to bring rechargeable lithium batteries back to life with an increased boost to the range of battery life for both EVs and next-generation electronic devices. The study on the work has been published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-04168-w\">Nature<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key problems with lithium-ion batteries is that, over time, they do lose some of their battery life. This is why recycling them is so important. But what if there was a way to bring them back to life? And by this, I mean make them as good as new without recycling them. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133550","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=133550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}