{"id":175903,"date":"2023-11-12T18:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T00:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/scientists-shed-new-light-on-critical-issue-facing-battery-components-in-evs-the-whole-field-has-been-misled"},"modified":"2023-11-12T18:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T00:22:22","slug":"scientists-shed-new-light-on-critical-issue-facing-battery-components-in-evs-the-whole-field-has-been-misled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/scientists-shed-new-light-on-critical-issue-facing-battery-components-in-evs-the-whole-field-has-been-misled","title":{"rendered":"Scientists shed new light on critical issue facing battery components in EVs: \u2018The whole field has been misled\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-shed-new-light-on-critical-issue-facing-battery-components-in-evs-the-whole-field-has-been-misled2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that the electrolyte reacting with the cathode surface leads to the increased crack formation,\u201d Manthiram <a href=\"https:\/\/cockrell.utexas.edu\/news\/archive\/9756-crack-formation-in-ev-battery-electrodes-unraveled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">said<\/a> in the lab report.<\/p>\n<p>The UT team reports that reversible cracking happens during battery operation. But, the electrolyte is working its way into those openings, removing oxygen from the cathode, and solidifying the cracks, <a href=\"https:\/\/cockrell.utexas.edu\/news\/archive\/9756-crack-formation-in-ev-battery-electrodes-unraveled\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">per<\/a> the UT report.<\/p>\n<p>To help visualize the problem, the experts likened this process to a river eroding its banks. And, in their opinion, the electrolyte\u2019s impact on the cathode\u2019s surface is the main cause for the degradation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe found that the electrolyte reacting with the cathode surface leads to the increased crack formation,\u201d Manthiram said in the lab report. The UT team reports that reversible cracking happens during battery operation. But, the electrolyte is working its way into those openings, removing oxygen from the cathode, and solidifying the cracks, per the UT [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175903","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=175903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}