{"id":214536,"date":"2025-05-23T02:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-use-ai-and-x-ray-vision-to-gain-insight-into-zinc-ion-battery-electrolyte"},"modified":"2025-05-23T02:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:04:40","slug":"scientists-use-ai-and-x-ray-vision-to-gain-insight-into-zinc-ion-battery-electrolyte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-use-ai-and-x-ray-vision-to-gain-insight-into-zinc-ion-battery-electrolyte","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use AI and X-ray vision to gain insight into zinc-ion battery electrolyte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-ai-and-x-ray-vision-to-gain-insight-into-zinc-ion-battery-electrolyte3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) used artificial intelligence (AI) to help them understand how zinc-ion batteries work\u2014and potentially how to make them more efficient for future energy storage needs.<\/p>\n<p>Their study, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prxenergy\/abstract\/10.1103\/PRXEnergy.4.023004\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>PRX Energy<\/i>, focused on the water-based electrolyte that shuttles electrically charged <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/zinc+ions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">zinc ions<\/a> through the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/rechargeable+battery\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rechargeable battery<\/a> during charging and use. The AI model tapped into how those charged ions interact with water under varying concentrations of zinc chloride (ZnCl<sub>2<\/sub>), a form of salt with high solubility in water.<\/p>\n<p>The AI findings, validated by experiments at Brookhaven Lab\u2019s National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), show why high salt concentrations produce the best battery performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) used artificial intelligence (AI) to help them understand how zinc-ion batteries work\u2014and potentially how to make them more efficient for future energy storage needs. Their study, published in the journal PRX Energy, focused on the water-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":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214536","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=214536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}