{"id":213091,"date":"2025-05-02T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/betavoltaic-cell-with-perovskite-radioactive-isotope-combo-can-power-long-term-applications"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:12:09","slug":"betavoltaic-cell-with-perovskite-radioactive-isotope-combo-can-power-long-term-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/betavoltaic-cell-with-perovskite-radioactive-isotope-combo-can-power-long-term-applications","title":{"rendered":"Betavoltaic cell with perovskite-radioactive isotope combo can power long-term applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/betavoltaic-cell-with-perovskite-radioactive-isotope-combo-can-power-long-term-applications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team has developed the world\u2019s first next-generation betavoltaic cell by directly connecting a radioactive isotope electrode to a perovskite absorber layer. By embedding carbon-14-based quantum dots into the electrode and enhancing the perovskite absorber layer\u2019s crystallinity, the team achieved both stable power output and high energy conversion efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/xlink.rsc.org\/?DOI=D4CC05935B\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Chemical Communications<\/i>. The team was led by Professor Su-Il In of the Department of Energy Science &amp; Engineering at DGIST.<\/p>\n<p>The newly developed technology offers a stable, long-term power supply without the need for recharging, making it a promising next-generation energy solution for fields requiring long-term power autonomy, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/space+exploration\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">space exploration<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/implantable+medical+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">implantable medical devices<\/a>, and military applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team has developed the world\u2019s first next-generation betavoltaic cell by directly connecting a radioactive isotope electrode to a perovskite absorber layer. By embedding carbon-14-based quantum dots into the electrode and enhancing the perovskite absorber layer\u2019s crystallinity, the team achieved both stable power output and high energy conversion efficiency. The work is published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,9,1617,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-military","category-quantum-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213091","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=213091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}