{"id":135572,"date":"2022-02-13T18:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T02:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/big-breakthrough-for-massless-energy-storage-structural-battery-that-performs-10x-better-than-all-previous-versions"},"modified":"2022-02-13T18:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T02:22:48","slug":"big-breakthrough-for-massless-energy-storage-structural-battery-that-performs-10x-better-than-all-previous-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/big-breakthrough-for-massless-energy-storage-structural-battery-that-performs-10x-better-than-all-previous-versions","title":{"rendered":"Big Breakthrough for \u201cMassless\u201d Energy Storage: Structural Battery That Performs 10x Better Than All Previous Versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yikwX_ehKAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fiber that serves simultaneously as an electrode, conductor, and load-bearing material. Their latest research breakthrough paves the way for essentially \u2019massless\u2019 energy storage in vehicles and other technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The batteries in today\u2019s electric cars constitute a large part of the vehicles\u2019 weight, without fulfilling any load-bearing function. A structural battery, on the other hand, is one that works as both a power source and as part of the structure \u2013 for example, in a car body. This is termed \u2018massless\u2019 energy storage, because in essence the battery\u2019s weight vanishes when it becomes part of the load-bearing structure. Calculations show that this type of multifunctional battery could greatly reduce the weight of an electric vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The development of structural batteries at Chalmers University of Technology has proceeded through many years of research, including <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cision.com\/chalmers\/r\/carbon-fibre-can-store-energy-in-the-body-of-a-vehicle, c3179310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previous discoveries<\/a> involving certain types of carbon fiber. In addition to being stiff and strong, they also have a good ability to store electrical energy chemically. This work was named by Physics World as one of 2018\u2019s ten biggest scientific breakthroughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fiber that serves simultaneously as an electrode, conductor, and load-bearing material. Their latest research breakthrough paves the way for essentially \u2019massless\u2019 energy storage in vehicles and other technology. The batteries in today\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,219,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-physics","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135572","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}