{"id":146945,"date":"2022-09-24T05:22:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T10:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/energy-storage-materials-built-from-nano-sized-molecular-blocks"},"modified":"2022-09-24T05:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T10:22:28","slug":"energy-storage-materials-built-from-nano-sized-molecular-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/energy-storage-materials-built-from-nano-sized-molecular-blocks","title":{"rendered":"Energy storage materials built from nano-sized molecular blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/energy-storage-materials-built-from-nano-sized-molecular-blocks3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Molecules of the rare metallic element niobium can be used as molecular building blocks to design electrochemical energy storage materials. Mark Rambaran, Department of Chemistry at Ume\u00e5 University, presents in his thesis a method for producing solid materials from aqueous solutions containing nano-sized niobium molecules, called polyoxoniobates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese polyoxoniobates are water-soluble and can be synthesized in large volumes. They act as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecular+building+blocks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecular building blocks<\/a>, in the same way as when a child stacks Lego bricks,\u201d Mark Rambaran says. \u201cThey can be used to make a wide range of materials, including supercapacitors that facilitate lithium-ion storage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Synthesis of polyoxoniobates can be done with microwave irradiation, because it is a rapid and efficient alternative to conventional hydrothermal methods, Mark Rambaran shows in his thesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molecules of the rare metallic element niobium can be used as molecular building blocks to design electrochemical energy storage materials. Mark Rambaran, Department of Chemistry at Ume\u00e5 University, presents in his thesis a method for producing solid materials from aqueous solutions containing nano-sized niobium molecules, called polyoxoniobates. \u201cThese polyoxoniobates are water-soluble and can be synthesized [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146945","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}