{"id":144228,"date":"2022-08-16T00:58:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/understanding-why-zinc-based-fuel-systems-fail"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:58:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:58:01","slug":"understanding-why-zinc-based-fuel-systems-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/understanding-why-zinc-based-fuel-systems-fail","title":{"rendered":"Understanding why zinc-based fuel systems fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/understanding-why-zinc-based-fuel-systems-fail.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While scientists have hoped that rechargeable zinc-manganese dioxide batteries could be developed into a viable alternative for grid storage applications, engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago and their colleagues identified the reasons these zinc-based fuel systems fail.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists reached this conclusion after leveraging advanced <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electron+microscopy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electron microscopy<\/a>, electrochemical experiments and theoretical calculations to look closer at how the zinc anode works with the manganese cathode in the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/battery+system\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">battery system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings are reported today in Nature Sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While scientists have hoped that rechargeable zinc-manganese dioxide batteries could be developed into a viable alternative for grid storage applications, engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago and their colleagues identified the reasons these zinc-based fuel systems fail. The scientists reached this conclusion after leveraging advanced electron microscopy, electrochemical experiments and theoretical calculations to look [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144228","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\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}