{"id":213696,"date":"2025-05-09T21:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/record-setting-lithium-ion-conductors-researchers-develop-new-material-for-solid-state-batteries"},"modified":"2025-05-09T21:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:17:52","slug":"record-setting-lithium-ion-conductors-researchers-develop-new-material-for-solid-state-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/record-setting-lithium-ion-conductors-researchers-develop-new-material-for-solid-state-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Record-setting lithium-ion conductors: Researchers develop new material for solid-state batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/record-setting-lithium-ion-conductors-researchers-develop-new-material-for-solid-state-batteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at TUM and TUMint. Energy Research have taken a significant step towards improving solid-state batteries. They developed a new material made of lithium, antimony and scandium that conducts lithium ions more than 30% faster than any previously known material. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/aenm.202500683\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.<\/p>\n<p>The team led by Prof. Thomas F. F\u00e4ssler from the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry with a Focus on Novel Materials partially replaced lithium in a lithium antimonide compound with the metal scandium. This creates specific gaps, so-called vacancies, in the crystal lattice of the conductor material. These gaps help the lithium ions to move more easily and faster, resulting in a new world record for ion conductivity.<\/p>\n<p>Since the measured conductivity far exceeded that of existing materials, the team collaborated with the Chair of Technical Electrochemistry under Prof. Hubert Gasteiger at TUM to confirm the result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at TUM and TUMint. Energy Research have taken a significant step towards improving solid-state batteries. They developed a new material made of lithium, antimony and scandium that conducts lithium ions more than 30% faster than any previously known material. The work is published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials. The team led by Prof. [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213696","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=213696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}