{"id":19136,"date":"2015-11-06T18:47:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T02:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/researchers-have-designed-a-battery-thats-90-percent-more-efficient-than-lithium-ion"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:26:06","slug":"researchers-have-designed-a-battery-thats-90-percent-more-efficient-than-lithium-ion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/researchers-have-designed-a-battery-thats-90-percent-more-efficient-than-lithium-ion","title":{"rendered":"Researchers have designed a battery that\u2019s 90 percent more efficient than lithium-ion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-have-designed-a-battery-thats-90-percent-more-efficient-than-lithium-ion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smartphones, laptops, and all manner of electronics have advanced by leaps in bounds over the past few decades, but an essential component of most of them \u2014 the battery, or more precisely the lithium-ion battery \u2014 hasn\u2019t. The technological remnant of the mid-\u201990s has a tendency to degrade and isn\u2019t particularly efficient, which is why scores of researchers have spent years pursuing alternatives. Until now, though, practical limitations \u2014 i.e., physical dimensions and mass manufacturing constraints \u2014 have permanently relegated many to laboratories. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/350\/6260\/530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">But a new design<\/a>, a refinement of so-called lithium-air design by scientists at the University of Cambridge, looks to be one of the most feasible yet.<\/p>\n<p>Lithium-air (Li-air) batteries have been around for a while \u2014 chemist K. M. Abraham is credited with developing the first rechargeable variant in 1995 \u2014 but they\u2019ve never been considered very practical. That\u2019s because they use carbon as an electron conductor instead of the metal-oxide found in conventional Li-ion batteries, and generate electricity from the reaction of oxygen molecules and lithium molecules, a process which leads to the production of electrically resistant lithium peroxide. As the lithium peroxide builds up, the power-producing reaction diminishes until it eventually ceases completely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/mobile\/why-batteries-suck-and-how-tech-may-fix-them\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Why batteries suck, and the new tech that might supercharge them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/researchers-designed-battery-90-percent-014915216.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphones, laptops, and all manner of electronics have advanced by leaps in bounds over the past few decades, but an essential component of most of them \u2014 the battery, or more precisely the lithium-ion battery \u2014 hasn\u2019t. The technological remnant of the mid-\u201990s has a tendency to degrade and isn\u2019t particularly efficient, which is why [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1497,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-energy","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19136","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63765,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19136\/revisions\/63765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}