{"id":18842,"date":"2015-10-28T08:47:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/silicon-battery-technology-produces-ten-times-more-energy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:28:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:28:29","slug":"silicon-battery-technology-produces-ten-times-more-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/silicon-battery-technology-produces-ten-times-more-energy","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Battery Technology Produces Ten Times More Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silicon-battery-technology-produces-ten-times-more-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Substantially smaller and longer-lasting batteries for everything from portable electronic devices to electric cars could be come a reality thanks to an innovative technology developed by University of Waterloo researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Zhongwei Chen, a chemical engineering professor at Waterloo, and a team of graduate students have created a low-cost battery using silicon that boosts the performance and life of lithium-ion batteries. Their findings are published in the latest issue of <em>Nature Communications<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Waterloo\u2019s silicon battery technology promises a 40 to 60 per cent increase in energy density, which is important for consumers with smartphones, smart homes and smart wearables.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/solarthermalmagazine.com\/2015\/10\/26\/silicon-battery-technology-produce-ten-times-more-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substantially smaller and longer-lasting batteries for everything from portable electronic devices to electric cars could be come a reality thanks to an innovative technology developed by University of Waterloo researchers. Zhongwei Chen, a chemical engineering professor at Waterloo, and a team of graduate students have created a low-cost battery using silicon that boosts the performance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842","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=18842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63846,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842\/revisions\/63846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}