{"id":147017,"date":"2022-09-25T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T16:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/lithium-ion-battery-material-breaks-barrier-on-fast-charging"},"modified":"2022-09-25T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T16:22:40","slug":"lithium-ion-battery-material-breaks-barrier-on-fast-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/lithium-ion-battery-material-breaks-barrier-on-fast-charging","title":{"rendered":"Lithium-ion battery material breaks barrier on fast charging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lithium-ion-battery-material-breaks-barrier-on-fast-charging3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, discovered a key material needed for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries. The commercially relevant approach opens a potential pathway to improve charging speeds for electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Lithium-ion batteries, or LIBs, play an essential role in the nation\u2019s portfolio of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/clean+energy+technologies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">clean energy technologies<\/a>. Most hybrid electric and all\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electric+vehicles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric vehicles<\/a> use LIBs. These <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/rechargeable+batteries\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rechargeable batteries<\/a> offer advantages in reliability and efficiency because they can store more energy, charge faster and last longer than traditional lead-acid batteries. However, the technology is still developing, and fundamental advances are needed to meet priorities to improve the cost, range and charge time of electric-vehicle batteries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOvercoming these challenges will require advances in materials that are more efficient and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/synthesis+methods\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">synthesis methods<\/a> that are scalable to industry,\u201d said ORNL Corporate Fellow and corresponding author Sheng Dai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, discovered a key material needed for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries. The commercially relevant approach opens a potential pathway to improve charging speeds for electric vehicles. Lithium-ion batteries, or LIBs, play an essential role in the nation\u2019s portfolio of clean energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147017","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=147017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}