{"id":194783,"date":"2024-08-19T07:24:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T12:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/novel-electrolyte-design-shows-promise-for-longer-lasting-lithium-metal-batteries"},"modified":"2024-08-19T07:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T12:24:23","slug":"novel-electrolyte-design-shows-promise-for-longer-lasting-lithium-metal-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/novel-electrolyte-design-shows-promise-for-longer-lasting-lithium-metal-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Novel electrolyte design shows promise for longer-lasting lithium-metal batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-electrolyte-design-shows-promise-for-longer-lasting-lithium-metal-batteries3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lithium-metal batteries could exhibit significantly higher energy densities than lithium-ion batteries, which are the primary battery technology on the market today. Yet lithium-metal cells also typically have significant limitations, the most notable of which is a short lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at University of Science and Technology of China and other institutes recently introduced a new electrolyte design that could be used to develop highly performing lithium-metal pouch cells with longer lifespans. This electrolyte, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41560-024-01565-z\" target=\"_blank\">presented<\/a> in a paper in <i>Nature Energy<\/i>, has a unique nanometer-scale solvation structure, with pairs of ions densely packed together into compact ion-pair aggregates (CIPA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primary objectives of our recent work are to markedly accelerate the practical applications of lithium-metal batteries and offer deep mechanistic understandings of this complicated system,\u201d Prof. Shuhong Jiao, co-author of the paper, told Tech Xplore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithium-metal batteries could exhibit significantly higher energy densities than lithium-ion batteries, which are the primary battery technology on the market today. Yet lithium-metal cells also typically have significant limitations, the most notable of which is a short lifespan. Researchers at University of Science and Technology of China and other institutes recently introduced a new electrolyte [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194783","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=194783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}