{"id":136004,"date":"2022-02-24T01:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T09:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/a-step-closer-to-biodegradable-household-batteries"},"modified":"2022-02-24T01:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T09:22:17","slug":"a-step-closer-to-biodegradable-household-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/a-step-closer-to-biodegradable-household-batteries","title":{"rendered":"A step closer to biodegradable household batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-step-closer-to-biodegradable-household-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fully organic rechargeable household batteries are an ideal alternative to traditional metal-based batteries, in particular for reducing pollution to landfill and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Now researchers at Flinders University, with Australian and Chinese collaborators, are developing an all-organic polymer battery that can deliver a cell voltage of 2.8V\u2014a big leap in improving the energy storage capability of organic batteries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile starting with small household batteries, we already know organic redox-active materials are typical electroactive alternatives due to their inherently safe, lightweight and structure-tunable features and, most importantly, their sustainable and environmentally friendly,\u201d says senior lecturer in chemistry Dr. Zhongfan Jia, a research leader at Flinders University\u2019s Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fully organic rechargeable household batteries are an ideal alternative to traditional metal-based batteries, in particular for reducing pollution to landfill and the environment. Now researchers at Flinders University, with Australian and Chinese collaborators, are developing an all-organic polymer battery that can deliver a cell voltage of 2.8V\u2014a big leap in improving the energy storage capability [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136004","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=136004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}