{"id":217427,"date":"2025-07-09T02:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/wood-based-material-can-improve-safety-and-lifespan-of-lithium-ion-batteries"},"modified":"2025-07-09T02:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:23:09","slug":"wood-based-material-can-improve-safety-and-lifespan-of-lithium-ion-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/wood-based-material-can-improve-safety-and-lifespan-of-lithium-ion-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Wood-based material can improve safety and lifespan of lithium-ion batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wood-based-material-can-improve-safety-and-lifespan-of-lithium-ion-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For consumers worried about the risks associated with using lithium-ion batteries\u2014which are used in everything from phones to laptops to electric vehicles\u2014Michigan State University has discovered that a natural material found in wood can improve battery safety while also improving the battery\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Chengcheng Fang, assistant professor in the College of Engineering, and Mojgan Nejad, an associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, collaborated to engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/lignin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lignin<\/a>, a natural ingredient of wood that provides support and rigidity, into a thin film separator that can be used inside <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/lithium-ion+batteries\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lithium-ion batteries<\/a> to prevent short circuits that can cause a fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to build a better battery,\u201d said Fang. \u201cBut we also wanted it to be safe, efficient and sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For consumers worried about the risks associated with using lithium-ion batteries\u2014which are used in everything from phones to laptops to electric vehicles\u2014Michigan State University has discovered that a natural material found in wood can improve battery safety while also improving the battery\u2019s life. Chengcheng Fang, assistant professor in the College of Engineering, and Mojgan Nejad, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217427","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=217427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}