{"id":209339,"date":"2025-03-21T02:13:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T07:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/electrode-design-could-prevent-explosions-in-next-gen-batteries-allowing-1000-km-on-a-single-charge"},"modified":"2025-03-21T02:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T07:13:03","slug":"electrode-design-could-prevent-explosions-in-next-gen-batteries-allowing-1000-km-on-a-single-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/electrode-design-could-prevent-explosions-in-next-gen-batteries-allowing-1000-km-on-a-single-charge","title":{"rendered":"Electrode design could prevent explosions in next-gen batteries, allowing 1,000 km on a single charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrode-design-could-prevent-explosions-in-next-gen-batteries-allowing-1000-km-on-a-single-charge2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team at UNIST has identified the causes of oxygen generation in a novel cathode material called quasi-lithium and proposed a material design principle to address this issue.<\/p>\n<p>Quasi-lithium materials theoretically enable batteries to store 30% to 70% more energy compared to existing technologies through high-voltage charging of over 4.5V. This advancement could allow <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electric+vehicles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric vehicles<\/a> to achieve a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/driving+range\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">driving range<\/a> of up to 1,000 km on a single charge. However, during the high-voltage charging process, oxygen trapped inside the material can oxidize and be released as gas, posing a significant explosion risk.<\/p>\n<p>The research team, led by Professor Hyun-Wook Lee in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, discovered that oxygen oxidizes near 4.25V, causing partial structural deformation and gas release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team at UNIST has identified the causes of oxygen generation in a novel cathode material called quasi-lithium and proposed a material design principle to address this issue. Quasi-lithium materials theoretically enable batteries to store 30% to 70% more energy compared to existing technologies through high-voltage charging of over 4.5V. This advancement could allow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,38,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209339","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}