{"id":164064,"date":"2023-05-17T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/scientists-invent-a-new-type-of-battery-the-oxygen-ion-battery"},"modified":"2023-05-17T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:22:53","slug":"scientists-invent-a-new-type-of-battery-the-oxygen-ion-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/scientists-invent-a-new-type-of-battery-the-oxygen-ion-battery","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Invent a New Type of Battery \u2014 The Oxygen-Ion Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-invent-a-new-type-of-battery-the-oxygen-ion-battery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers at TU Wien (Vienna) have developed a groundbreaking oxygen-ion battery, which boasts exceptional durability, eliminates the need for rare elements, and solves the problem of fire hazards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lithium-ion batteries, while commonplace in today\u2019s world \u2013 powering everything from electric vehicles to smartphones \u2013 aren\u2019t necessarily the optimal solution for all applications. Researchers at TU Wien have made a breakthrough by creating an oxygen-ion battery that offers several significant advantages. While it may not match the energy density of lithium-ion batteries, its storage capacity doesn\u2019t diminish irreversibly over time, making it capable of an exceptionally long lifespan as it can be regenerated.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the fabrication of oxygen-ion batteries doesn\u2019t require scarce elements and involves non-combustible materials. The innovative battery concept has already led to a patent application, filed in collaboration with partners in Spain. These oxygen-ion batteries could provide an outstanding solution for large-scale energy storage systems, such as those required to hold electrical energy from renewable sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at TU Wien (Vienna) have developed a groundbreaking oxygen-ion battery, which boasts exceptional durability, eliminates the need for rare elements, and solves the problem of fire hazards. Lithium-ion batteries, while commonplace in today\u2019s world \u2013 powering everything from electric vehicles to smartphones \u2013 aren\u2019t necessarily the optimal solution for all applications. Researchers at TU [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164064","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}