{"id":214430,"date":"2025-05-21T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/eco-friendly-advance-brings-co%e2%82%82-breathing-batteries-closer-to-reality"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T18:05:58","slug":"eco-friendly-advance-brings-co%e2%82%82-breathing-batteries-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/eco-friendly-advance-brings-co%e2%82%82-breathing-batteries-closer-to-reality","title":{"rendered":"Eco-friendly advance brings CO\u2082 \u2018breathing\u2019 batteries closer to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eco-friendly-advance-brings-coe28282-breathing-batteries-closer-to-reality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Surrey have made a breakthrough in eco-friendly batteries that not only store more energy but could also help tackle greenhouse gas emissions. Lithium\u2013CO<sub>2<\/sub> \u201cbreathing\u201d batteries release power while capturing carbon dioxide, offering a greener alternative that may one day outperform today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, lithium-CO<sub>2<\/sub> batteries have faced setbacks in efficiency\u2014wearing out quickly, failing to recharge and relying on expensive rare materials such as platinum.<\/p>\n<p>However, researchers from Surrey have found a way to overcome these issues by using a low-cost catalyst called cesium phosphomolybdate (CPM). Using computer modeling and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/lab+experiments\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lab experiments<\/a>, tests showed this simple change allowed the battery to store significantly more energy, charge with far less power and run for over 100 cycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Surrey have made a breakthrough in eco-friendly batteries that not only store more energy but could also help tackle greenhouse gas emissions. Lithium\u2013CO2 \u201cbreathing\u201d batteries release power while capturing carbon dioxide, offering a greener alternative that may one day outperform today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries. Until now, lithium-CO2 batteries have faced setbacks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214430","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=214430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}