{"id":137347,"date":"2022-03-25T12:24:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/sodium-based-material-yields-stable-alternative-to-lithium-ion-batteries"},"modified":"2022-03-25T12:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T19:24:56","slug":"sodium-based-material-yields-stable-alternative-to-lithium-ion-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/sodium-based-material-yields-stable-alternative-to-lithium-ion-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Sodium-Based Material Yields Stable Alternative to Lithium-Ion Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sodium-based-material-yields-stable-alternative-to-lithium-ion-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) researchers have created a new sodium-based battery material that is highly stable, capable of recharging as quickly as a traditional lithium-ion battery, and able to pave the way toward delivering more energy than current battery technologies.<\/p>\n<p>For about a decade, scientists and engineers have been developing sodium batteries, which replace both lithium and cobalt used in current lithium-ion batteries with cheaper, more environmentally friendly sodium. Unfortunately, in earlier sodium batteries, a component called the anode would tend to grow needle-like filaments called dendrites that can cause the battery to electrically short and even catch fire or explode.<\/p>\n<p>In one of two recent sodium battery advances from UT Austin, the new material solves the dendrite problem and recharges as quickly as a lithium-ion battery. The team <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202106005\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>published their results<\/strong><\/a> in the journal <em>Advanced Materials<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) researchers have created a new sodium-based battery material that is highly stable, capable of recharging as quickly as a traditional lithium-ion battery, and able to pave the way toward delivering more energy than current battery technologies. For about a decade, scientists and engineers have been developing sodium batteries, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137347","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}