{"id":218854,"date":"2025-07-27T12:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/research-shows-how-sulfate-ions-increase-the-lifespan-performance-of-aqueous-batteries"},"modified":"2025-07-27T12:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:15:55","slug":"research-shows-how-sulfate-ions-increase-the-lifespan-performance-of-aqueous-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/research-shows-how-sulfate-ions-increase-the-lifespan-performance-of-aqueous-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Research shows how sulfate ions increase the lifespan, performance of aqueous batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-shows-how-sulfate-ions-increase-the-lifespan-performance-of-aqueous-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have uncovered a critical molecular cause keeping aqueous rechargeable batteries from becoming a safer, economical option for sustainable energy storage.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adx8413\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, reveal how water compromises battery life and performance and how the addition of affordable salts\u2014such as zinc sulfate\u2014mitigates this issue, even increasing the battery lifespan by more than ten times.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key determinants of the lifespan of a battery\u2014aqueous or otherwise\u2014is the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/anode\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">anode<\/a>. Chemical reactions at the anode generate and store the battery\u2019s energy. However, parasitic <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a> degrade the anode, compromising the battery lifespan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have uncovered a critical molecular cause keeping aqueous rechargeable batteries from becoming a safer, economical option for sustainable energy storage. Their findings, published in Science Advances, reveal how water compromises battery life and performance and how the addition of affordable salts\u2014such as zinc sulfate\u2014mitigates this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218854","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}