{"id":214030,"date":"2025-05-14T18:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/interlocked-electrodes-push-silicon-battery-lifespan-beyond-limits"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:10:28","slug":"interlocked-electrodes-push-silicon-battery-lifespan-beyond-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/interlocked-electrodes-push-silicon-battery-lifespan-beyond-limits","title":{"rendered":"Interlocked electrodes push silicon battery lifespan beyond limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/interlocked-electrodes-push-silicon-battery-lifespan-beyond-limits2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As demand surges for batteries that store more energy and last longer\u2014powering electric vehicles, drones, and energy storage systems\u2014a team of South Korean researchers has introduced an approach to overcome a major limitation of conventional lithium-ion batteries (LIBs): unstable interfaces between electrodes and electrolytes.<\/p>\n<p>Most of today\u2019s consumer electronics\u2014such as smartphones and laptops\u2014rely on graphite-based batteries. While graphite offers long-term stability, it falls short in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy+capacity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy capacity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Silicon, by contrast, can store nearly 10 times more lithium ions, making it a promising next-generation anode material. However, silicon\u2019s main drawback is its dramatic volume expansion and contraction during charge and discharge, swelling up to three times its original size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As demand surges for batteries that store more energy and last longer\u2014powering electric vehicles, drones, and energy storage systems\u2014a team of South Korean researchers has introduced an approach to overcome a major limitation of conventional lithium-ion batteries (LIBs): unstable interfaces between electrodes and electrolytes. Most of today\u2019s consumer electronics\u2014such as smartphones and laptops\u2014rely on graphite-based [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1488,1512,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-drones","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214030","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=214030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}