{"id":220075,"date":"2025-08-14T03:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/quasi-solid-electrolyte-developed-for-safer-and-greener-lithium-ion-batteries"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:27:32","slug":"quasi-solid-electrolyte-developed-for-safer-and-greener-lithium-ion-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/quasi-solid-electrolyte-developed-for-safer-and-greener-lithium-ion-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Quasi-solid electrolyte developed for safer and greener lithium-ion batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quasi-solid-electrolyte-developed-for-safer-and-greener-lithium-ion-batteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3D-SLISE is a quasi-solid electrolyte developed at the Institute of Science Tokyo, which enables safe, fast-charging\/discharging of 2.35 V lithium-ion batteries to be fabricated under ambient conditions. With energy-efficient manufacturing using raw materials free from flammable organic solvents, the technique eliminates the need for dry rooms or high-temperature processing. Moreover, it also allows direct recovery of active materials through water dispersal\u2014ensuring a sustainable, recyclable approach to battery production.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s era of portable power and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/clean+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">clean energy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/lithium-ion+batteries\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lithium-ion batteries<\/a> form the backbone of modern technology\u2014powering everything from smartphones to electric vehicles. While demand for lithium-ion batteries continues to grow, so do concerns about their safety, environmental impact, and recyclability. Most lithium-ion batteries that rely on flammable organic solvents are energy-intensive to manufacture, and require complicated recycling processes. These issues not only drive up costs but also pose serious safety and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/environmental+risks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environmental risks <\/a>\u2014highlighting the need for safer and cleaner alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>To address this challenge, a research team from Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo), Japan, led by Specially Appointed Professor Yosuke Shiratori and Associate Professor Shintaro Yasui from the Zero-Carbon Energy Research Institute, Science Tokyo, developed a new quasi-solid electrolyte called 3D-Slime Interface Quasi-Solid Electrolyte (3D-SLISE), which can transform battery manufacturing. With a simple borate-water matrix, the electrolyte supports the production of 2.35 V lithium-ion batteries under standard air conditions. The detailed findings of the study were made available in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/adma.202505649\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Advanced Materials<\/i><\/a> on July 9, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D-SLISE is a quasi-solid electrolyte developed at the Institute of Science Tokyo, which enables safe, fast-charging\/discharging of 2.35 V lithium-ion batteries to be fabricated under ambient conditions. With energy-efficient manufacturing using raw materials free from flammable organic solvents, the technique eliminates the need for dry rooms or high-temperature processing. Moreover, it also allows direct recovery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220075","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=220075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}