{"id":215928,"date":"2025-06-14T14:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-imaging-method-reveals-how-lithium-metal-batteries-lose-capacity-over-time"},"modified":"2025-06-14T14:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:11:07","slug":"new-imaging-method-reveals-how-lithium-metal-batteries-lose-capacity-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-imaging-method-reveals-how-lithium-metal-batteries-lose-capacity-over-time","title":{"rendered":"New imaging method reveals how lithium-metal batteries lose capacity over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-imaging-method-reveals-how-lithium-metal-batteries-lose-capacity-over-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lithium-metal batteries have not hit the market yet, but if they do, they could be a solution to the everyday woes of the dwindling battery meter. They are cousins of the lithium-ion batteries found in legions of everyday electronic devices, but with the potential to hold twice as much power. Unfortunately, the lithium-metal battery\u2019s limited number of recharges has been a major obstacle to their wide adoption.<\/p>\n<p>A new study led by researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, or CNSI, however, might just help ratchet up the pace of progress. In the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adv3191\" target=\"_blank\">documented<\/a> an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/imaging+technique\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">imaging technique<\/a> they invented that\u2014for the first time ever\u2014captures a lithium-metal battery as it charges, at a level of detail smaller than the wavelength of light.<\/p>\n<p>The method, electrified <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/cryogenic+electron+microscopy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cryogenic electron microscopy<\/a>, or eCryoEM for short, yielded insights that may help guide the design of better lithium-metal batteries. Cultivating this progress with U.S.-based research could give the U.S. an edge in this successor technology to <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/lithium-ion+batteries\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lithium-ion batteries<\/a>, an industry currently dominated by Chinese enterprises. The study also holds promise for shedding light on mysteries in disciplines as far afield as neuroscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithium-metal batteries have not hit the market yet, but if they do, they could be a solution to the everyday woes of the dwindling battery meter. They are cousins of the lithium-ion batteries found in legions of everyday electronic devices, but with the potential to hold twice as much power. Unfortunately, the lithium-metal battery\u2019s limited [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215928","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=215928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}