{"id":209445,"date":"2025-03-21T17:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-electrolytes-enable-safe-stable-and-fast-charging-lithium-metal-batteries"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:08:42","slug":"new-electrolytes-enable-safe-stable-and-fast-charging-lithium-metal-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-electrolytes-enable-safe-stable-and-fast-charging-lithium-metal-batteries","title":{"rendered":"New electrolytes enable safe, stable and fast-charging lithium-metal batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-electrolytes-enable-safe-stable-and-fast-charging-lithium-metal-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, researchers have been trying to develop increasingly advanced battery technologies that can be charged faster and store more energy, while also remaining safe and stable over time. Lithium-metal batteries (LMBs), which contain a lithium-metal-based anode, have been found to be promising alternatives to lithium-ion batteries (LiBs), which are currently the most widely used rechargeable batteries.<\/p>\n<p>A key advantage of LMBs is that they can store significantly more energy than LiBs, which could be advantageous for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electric+vehicles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric vehicles<\/a> and other large or advanced electronics. Despite their potential, these batteries have so far proved to be less stable and safe than LiBs, while also charging relatively slowly; limitations that have so far prevented their widespread adoption.<\/p>\n<p>A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and other institutes recently designed new <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrolytes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrolytes<\/a> based on symmetric organic salts, which could help to boost the performance of LMBs. Their newly designed electrolytes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41560-025-01733-9\" target=\"_blank\">introduced<\/a> in a paper in <i>Nature Energy<\/i>, were found to improve the stability and charging speed of LMBs, preventing the formation of dendrites (lithium deposits that cause a battery\u2019s performance to decline over time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, researchers have been trying to develop increasingly advanced battery technologies that can be charged faster and store more energy, while also remaining safe and stable over time. Lithium-metal batteries (LMBs), which contain a lithium-metal-based anode, have been found to be promising alternatives to lithium-ion batteries (LiBs), which are currently the most widely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209445","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=209445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}