{"id":207151,"date":"2025-02-24T14:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/the-key-to-longer-battery-life-engineers-solve-decades-old-lithium-ion-mystery"},"modified":"2025-02-24T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:02:42","slug":"the-key-to-longer-battery-life-engineers-solve-decades-old-lithium-ion-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/the-key-to-longer-battery-life-engineers-solve-decades-old-lithium-ion-mystery","title":{"rendered":"The Key to Longer Battery Life? Engineers Solve Decades-Old Lithium-Ion Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-key-to-longer-battery-life-engineers-solve-decades-old-lithium-ion-mystery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UT Dallas researchers have identified the cause of LiNiO\u2082 battery degradation and developed a structural reinforcement method that could enable its commercial use in longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lithium nickel oxide (LiNiO\u2082) is a promising material for next-generation lithium-ion batteries with longer lifespans. However, its commercialization has been hindered by degradation after repeated charging cycles.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-texas-at-dallas\/\">University of Texas at Dallas<\/a> have identified the cause of this breakdown and are testing a solution that could overcome a major obstacle to its widespread use. Their findings were recently published din the journal <em><i>Advanced Energy Materials<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UT Dallas researchers have identified the cause of LiNiO\u2082 battery degradation and developed a structural reinforcement method that could enable its commercial use in longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries. Lithium nickel oxide (LiNiO\u2082) is a promising material for next-generation lithium-ion batteries with longer lifespans. However, its commercialization has been hindered by degradation after repeated charging cycles. Researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207151","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}