{"id":180522,"date":"2024-01-15T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T15:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/ai-comes-up-with-battery-design-that-uses-70-per-cent-less-lithium"},"modified":"2024-01-15T09:22:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T15:22:59","slug":"ai-comes-up-with-battery-design-that-uses-70-per-cent-less-lithium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/ai-comes-up-with-battery-design-that-uses-70-per-cent-less-lithium","title":{"rendered":"AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-comes-up-with-battery-design-that-uses-70-per-cent-less-lithium2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence can accelerate the process of finding and testing new materials, and now researchers have used that ability to develop a battery that is less dependent on the costly mineral lithium.<\/p>\n<p>Lithium-ion batteries power many devices that we use every day as well as electric vehicles. They would also be a necessary part of a green electric grid, as batteries are required to store renewable energy from wind turbines and solar panels. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24933180-600-were-running-out-of-lithium-for-batteries-can-we-use-salt-instead\/\">lithium is expensive<\/a> and mining it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25333710-200-lithium-fields-beautiful-from-the-air-trouble-on-the-ground\/\">damages the environment<\/a>. Finding a replacement for this crucial metal could be costly and time-consuming, requiring researchers to develop and test millions of candidates over the course of years. Using AI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nathanandrewbaker\/\">Nathan Baker<\/a> at Microsoft and his colleagues accomplished the task in months. They designed and built a battery that uses up to 70 per cent less lithium than some competing designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence can accelerate the process of finding and testing new materials, and now researchers have used that ability to develop a battery that is less dependent on the costly mineral lithium. Lithium-ion batteries power many devices that we use every day as well as electric vehicles. They would also be a necessary part of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1633,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180522","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\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}