{"id":222067,"date":"2025-09-18T03:36:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/sodium-based-battery-design-maintains-performance-at-room-and-subzero-temperatures"},"modified":"2025-09-18T03:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:36:48","slug":"sodium-based-battery-design-maintains-performance-at-room-and-subzero-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/sodium-based-battery-design-maintains-performance-at-room-and-subzero-temperatures","title":{"rendered":"Sodium-based battery design maintains performance at room and subzero temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sodium-based-battery-design-maintains-performance-at-room-and-subzero-temperatures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All-solid-state batteries are safe, powerful ways to power EVs and electronics and store electricity from the energy grid, but the lithium used to build them is rare, expensive and can be environmentally devastating to extract.<\/p>\n<p>Sodium is an inexpensive, plentiful, less-destructive alternative, but the all-solid-state batteries they create currently don\u2019t work as well at room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a matter of sodium versus lithium. We need both. When we think about tomorrow\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy+storage\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy storage<\/a> solutions, we should imagine the same gigafactory can produce products based on both lithium and sodium chemistries,\u201d said Y. Shirley Meng, Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering at the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME). \u201cThis new research gets us closer to that ultimate goal while advancing basic science along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All-solid-state batteries are safe, powerful ways to power EVs and electronics and store electricity from the energy grid, but the lithium used to build them is rare, expensive and can be environmentally devastating to extract. Sodium is an inexpensive, plentiful, less-destructive alternative, but the all-solid-state batteries they create currently don\u2019t work as well at room [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222067","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=222067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}