{"id":203264,"date":"2025-01-07T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/breakthrough-in-zinc-based-rechargeable-batteries-a-safer-sustainable-alternative"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:26:51","slug":"breakthrough-in-zinc-based-rechargeable-batteries-a-safer-sustainable-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/breakthrough-in-zinc-based-rechargeable-batteries-a-safer-sustainable-alternative","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough in Zinc-based Rechargeable Batteries: A safer, sustainable alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-in-zinc-based-rechargeable-batteries-a-safer-sustainable-alternative3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Case Western Reserve University researcher advances zinc-sulfur battery technology. Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries power everything from electric vehicles to wearable devices. But new research from Case Western Reserve University suggests that a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative may lie in zinc-based batteries.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published recently in Angewandte Chemie, researchers announced a significant step toward creating high-performance, low-cost zinc-sulfur batteries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research marks a major step forward in the development of safer and more sustainable energy storage solutions,\u201d said Chase Cao, a principal investigator and assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Case School of Engineering. \u201cAqueous zinc-sulfur batteries offer the potential to power a wide range of applications \u2014 from renewable energy systems to portable electronics \u2014 with reduced environmental impact and reliance on scarce materials.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case Western Reserve University researcher advances zinc-sulfur battery technology. Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries power everything from electric vehicles to wearable devices. But new research from Case Western Reserve University suggests that a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative may lie in zinc-based batteries. In a study published recently in Angewandte Chemie, researchers announced a significant step toward [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,17,1491,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-sustainability","category-transportation","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203264","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}