{"id":157768,"date":"2023-02-11T23:08:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T05:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-lithium-metal-battery-lets-drones-fly-70-percent-longer"},"modified":"2023-02-11T23:08:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T05:08:52","slug":"new-lithium-metal-battery-lets-drones-fly-70-percent-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-lithium-metal-battery-lets-drones-fly-70-percent-longer","title":{"rendered":"New Lithium Metal Battery Lets Drones Fly 70 Percent Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-lithium-metal-battery-lets-drones-fly-70-percent-longer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nanoscale defects and mechanical stress cause the failure of solid electrolytes.<\/p>\n<p>A group of researchers has claimed to have found the cause of the recurring short-circuiting issues of <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/lithium-metal-batteries-power-drones-for-70-percent-longer\">lithium metal<\/a> batteries with solid electrolytes. The team, which consists of members from Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, aims to further the battery technology, which is lightweight, inflammable, energy-dense, and offers quick-charge capabilities. Such a long-lasting <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/red-phosphorus-may-be-the-key-to-creating-more-efficient-lithium-metal-batteries\">solution <\/a>can help to overcome the barriers when it comes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/transportation\/new-lithium-metal-battery-could-revolutionize-electronics\">adoption<\/a> of electric vehicles around the world.<\/p>\n<p>A study published on January 30 in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nenergy\/\">Nature Energy<\/a> details different experiments on how nanoscale defects and mechanical stress cause solid electrolytes to fail.<\/p>\n<p>According to the team, the issue was down to mechanical stress, which was induced while recharging the batteries. \u201cJust modest indentation, bending or twisting of the batteries can cause nanoscopic issues in the materials to open and lithium to intrude into the solid electrolyte causing it to short circuit,\u201d explained William Chueh, senior study author and an associate professor at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility of dust or other impurities present at the manufacturing stage could also cause the batteries to malfunction.<\/p>\n<p>## Cracks on the surface of ceramic electrolytes<\/p>\n<p>The widespread use of ceramic materials source of solid electrolytes comes with a packing problem. Even though they enable the fast transport of lithium ions and separate the two electrodes that store energy, it is prone to developing tiny cracks on their surface.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-lithium-metal-battery-lets-drones-fly-70-percent-longer\">Continue reading \u201cNew Lithium Metal Battery Lets Drones Fly 70 Percent Longer\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanoscale defects and mechanical stress cause the failure of solid electrolytes. A group of researchers has claimed to have found the cause of the recurring short-circuiting issues of lithium metal batteries with solid electrolytes. The team, which consists of members from Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, aims to further the battery technology, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1497,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157768","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=157768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}