{"id":164669,"date":"2023-05-28T06:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T11:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-develop-calcium-metal-battery-with-long-cycle-life"},"modified":"2023-05-28T06:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T11:22:52","slug":"researchers-develop-calcium-metal-battery-with-long-cycle-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-develop-calcium-metal-battery-with-long-cycle-life","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop calcium metal battery with long cycle life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-calcium-metal-battery-with-long-cycle-life3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As potential alternatives to lithium-ion batteries, rechargeable calcium (Ca) metal batteries offer advantageous features such as high energy density, cost-effectiveness, and natural elemental abundance. Its properties are also thought to help accelerate ion transport and diffusion in electrolytes and cathode materials, giving it an edge over other lithium-ion battery alternatives such as magnesium and zinc.<\/p>\n<p>However, many challenges impede the development of practical Ca metal batteries. The challenges include the lack of an efficient electrolyte and the absence of cathode materials with sufficient Ca<sup>2+<\/sup> storage capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Tohoku University researchers have developed a prototype calcium metal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/rechargeable-battery\/\">rechargeable battery<\/a> capable of 500 cycles of repeated charge-discharge \u2013 the benchmark for practical use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As potential alternatives to lithium-ion batteries, rechargeable calcium (Ca) metal batteries offer advantageous features such as high energy density, cost-effectiveness, and natural elemental abundance. Its properties are also thought to help accelerate ion transport and diffusion in electrolytes and cathode materials, giving it an edge over other lithium-ion battery alternatives such as magnesium and zinc. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164669","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}