{"id":135721,"date":"2022-02-16T18:23:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T02:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/scientists-accidentally-stumble-on-holy-grail-of-batteries"},"modified":"2022-02-16T18:23:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T02:23:18","slug":"scientists-accidentally-stumble-on-holy-grail-of-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/scientists-accidentally-stumble-on-holy-grail-of-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Scientists accidentally stumble on \u2018holy grail\u2019 of batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-accidentally-stumble-on-holy-grail-of-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lithium-sulfur batteries have three times the potential charge capacity of lithium-ion batteries, which are found in everything from smartphones to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/electric-cars\">electric cars<\/a>. Their inherent instability, however, have so far made them unsuitable for commercial applications, with lithium-sulfur batteries undergoing a 78 per cent change in size every charging cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Overcoming this issue would not only radically improve the performance of battery-powered devices, it would also address some of the environment concerns that come with lithium-ion batteries, such as the sourcing and disposal of rare raw materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithium-sulfur batteries have three times the potential charge capacity of lithium-ion batteries, which are found in everything from smartphones to electric cars. Their inherent instability, however, have so far made them unsuitable for commercial applications, with lithium-sulfur batteries undergoing a 78 per cent change in size every charging cycle. Overcoming this issue would not only [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135721","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}