{"id":195497,"date":"2024-08-31T14:24:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T19:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scalable-graphene-technology-could-significantly-enhance-battery-safety-and-performance"},"modified":"2024-08-31T14:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T19:24:39","slug":"scalable-graphene-technology-could-significantly-enhance-battery-safety-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/scalable-graphene-technology-could-significantly-enhance-battery-safety-and-performance","title":{"rendered":"Scalable graphene technology could significantly enhance battery safety and performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scalable-graphene-technology-could-significantly-enhance-battery-safety-and-performance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Swansea University, in collaboration with Wuhan University of Technology, Shenzhen University, have developed a pioneering technique for producing large-scale graphene current collectors.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough promises to significantly enhance the safety and performance of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), addressing a critical challenge in energy storage technology.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <i>Nature Chemical Engineering<\/i>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44286-024-00103-8\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> details the first successful protocol for fabricating defect-free <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene<\/a> foils on a commercial scale. These foils offer extraordinary thermal conductivity\u2014up to 1,400.8 W m<sup>\u20131<\/sup> K<sup>\u20131 <\/sup>\u2014nearly ten times higher than traditional copper and aluminum current collectors used in LIBs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Swansea University, in collaboration with Wuhan University of Technology, Shenzhen University, have developed a pioneering technique for producing large-scale graphene current collectors. This breakthrough promises to significantly enhance the safety and performance of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), addressing a critical challenge in energy storage technology. Published in Nature Chemical Engineering, the study details the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195497","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=195497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}