{"id":137867,"date":"2022-04-08T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-freeze-thaw-molten-salt-battery-for-seasonal-storage"},"modified":"2022-04-08T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T15:24:55","slug":"a-freeze-thaw-molten-salt-battery-for-seasonal-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-freeze-thaw-molten-salt-battery-for-seasonal-storage","title":{"rendered":"A freeze-thaw molten salt battery for seasonal storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-freeze-thaw-molten-salt-battery-for-seasonal-storage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It relies on a new \u201cfreeze-thaw\u201d design. A recent study has just been published by U.S. scientists who have managed to develop an aluminum-nickel molten salt battery that can retain over 90% of its initial capacity over a period of up to 12 weeks. Having an energy density of 260 W\/hour per kg, the new battery was built with an aluminum anode and a nickel cathode, immersed in a molten-salt electrolyte.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The breakthrough could have many applications in soft robotics including in the Metaverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It relies on a new \u201cfreeze-thaw\u201d design. A recent study has just been published by U.S. scientists who have managed to develop an aluminum-nickel molten salt battery that can retain over 90% of its initial capacity over a period of up to 12 weeks. Having an energy density of 260 W\/hour per kg, the new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137867","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}