{"id":216193,"date":"2025-06-18T13:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/worlds-first-hybrid-betavoltaic-cell-promises-decades-of-power-without-charging"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:09:11","slug":"worlds-first-hybrid-betavoltaic-cell-promises-decades-of-power-without-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/worlds-first-hybrid-betavoltaic-cell-promises-decades-of-power-without-charging","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First Hybrid Betavoltaic Cell Promises Decades of Power Without Charging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-hybrid-betavoltaic-cell-promises-decades-of-power-without-charging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough by creating the world\u2019s first next-generation betavoltaic cell. This advanced power source was made by directly connecting a radioactive isotope electrode to a perovskite absorber layer, a cutting-edge material known for its efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>To boost performance, the team embedded carbon-14-based quantum dots into the electrode and improved the structure of the perovskite layer. These innovations led to a highly stable power output and impressive energy conversion efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were published in the journal <em><i>Chemical Communications<\/i><\/em> and led by Professor Su-Il In of the Department of Energy Science &amp; Engineering at DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough by creating the world\u2019s first next-generation betavoltaic cell. This advanced power source was made by directly connecting a radioactive isotope electrode to a perovskite absorber layer, a cutting-edge material known for its efficiency. To boost performance, the team embedded carbon-14-based quantum dots into the electrode and improved the structure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216193","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}