{"id":169049,"date":"2023-08-05T02:22:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T07:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/true-shape-of-lithium-revealed-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2023-08-05T02:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T07:22:58","slug":"true-shape-of-lithium-revealed-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/true-shape-of-lithium-revealed-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"True shape of lithium revealed for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/true-shape-of-lithium-revealed-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries power smartphones, electric vehicles and storage for solar and wind energy, among other technologies.<\/p>\n<p>They descend from another technology, the lithium-metal battery, that hasn\u2019t been developed or adopted as broadly. There\u2019s a reason for that: While lithium-metal batteries have the potential to hold about double the energy that lithium-ion batteries can, they also present a far greater risk of catching fire or even exploding.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a study by members of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA reveals a fundamental discovery that could lead to safer lithium-metal batteries that outperform today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries. The research was published today in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries power smartphones, electric vehicles and storage for solar and wind energy, among other technologies. They descend from another technology, the lithium-metal battery, that hasn\u2019t been developed or adopted as broadly. There\u2019s a reason for that: While lithium-metal batteries have the potential to hold about double the energy that lithium-ion batteries can, they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169049","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\/169049","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}