{"id":211386,"date":"2025-04-14T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/water-based-battery-offers-2000-cycle-stability"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T18:03:48","slug":"water-based-battery-offers-2000-cycle-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/water-based-battery-offers-2000-cycle-stability","title":{"rendered":"Water-based battery offers 2,000-cycle stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/water-based-battery-offers-2000-cycle-stability2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of chemical and biomolecular engineers, physicists and battery specialists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has developed a water-based battery that offers 2,000-cycle stability. In their paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41565-025-01898-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i>, the group outlines why they believe it could help bridge the gap between aqueous batteries and non-aqueous lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>The main advantage of using aqueous batteries is their safety compared to nonaqueous, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/lithium-ion+batteries\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lithium-ion batteries<\/a>. They cannot ignite unexpectedly, minimizing fire hazard. The reason that they are not common is their reduction potential limit of aqueous electrolytes, which has restricted their <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy+density\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy density<\/a>. Also, the current types of electrolytes they use tend to have problems with water shuttling the interface and high impedance.<\/p>\n<p>In this new study, the research team has taken a step toward resolving these problems by improving ion transport and the stability of biphasic electrolytes via lithium ionophores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of chemical and biomolecular engineers, physicists and battery specialists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has developed a water-based battery that offers 2,000-cycle stability. In their paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the group outlines why they believe it could help bridge the gap between aqueous batteries and non-aqueous lithium-ion batteries. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211386","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=211386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}