{"id":214973,"date":"2025-05-29T05:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/world-record-broken-new-material-revolutionizes-ion-conductivity"},"modified":"2025-05-29T05:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:15:56","slug":"world-record-broken-new-material-revolutionizes-ion-conductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/world-record-broken-new-material-revolutionizes-ion-conductivity","title":{"rendered":"World Record Broken: New Material Revolutionizes Ion Conductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/world-record-broken-new-material-revolutionizes-ion-conductivity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solid-state batteries are seen as a game-changer for the future of energy storage. They can hold more power and are safer because they don\u2019t rely on flammable materials like today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries. Now, researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/technical-university-of-munich\/\">Technical University of Munich (TUM)<\/a> and TUMint. Energy Research have made a major breakthrough that could bring this future closer.<\/p>\n<p>They have created a new material made from lithium, antimony, and a small amount of scandium. This material allows lithium ions to move more than 30 percent faster than any known alternative. That means record-breaking conductivity, which could lead to faster charging and more efficient batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Professor Thomas F. F\u00e4ssler, the team discovered that swapping some of the lithium atoms for scandium atoms changes the structure of the material. 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solid-state batteries are seen as a game-changer for the future of energy storage. They can hold more power and are safer because they don\u2019t rely on flammable materials like today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries. Now, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TUMint. Energy Research have made a major breakthrough that could bring this future [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214973","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}