{"id":133701,"date":"2022-01-07T07:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/first-realistic-portraits-of-squishy-layer-thats-key-to-battery-performance"},"modified":"2022-01-07T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T15:22:19","slug":"first-realistic-portraits-of-squishy-layer-thats-key-to-battery-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/first-realistic-portraits-of-squishy-layer-thats-key-to-battery-performance","title":{"rendered":"First realistic portraits of squishy layer that\u2019s key to battery performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-realistic-portraits-of-squishy-layer-thats-key-to-battery-performance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lithium metal batteries could store much more charge in a given space than today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries, and the race is on to develop them for next-gen electric vehicles, electronics and other uses.<\/p>\n<p>But one of the hurdles that stand in the way is a silent battle between two of the battery\u2019s parts. The liquid between the battery electrodes, known as the electrolyte, corrodes the surface of the lithium metal anode, coating it in a thin layer of gunk called the solid-electrolyte interphase, or SEI.<\/p>\n<p>Although formation of SEI is believed to be inevitable, researchers hope to stabilize and control the growth of this layer in a way that maximizes the battery\u2019s performance. But until now they have never had a clear picture of what the SEI looks like when it\u2019s saturated with electrolyte, as it would be in a working battery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithium metal batteries could store much more charge in a given space than today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries, and the race is on to develop them for next-gen electric vehicles, electronics and other uses. But one of the hurdles that stand in the way is a silent battle between two of the battery\u2019s parts. The liquid between [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133701","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}