{"id":223997,"date":"2025-10-25T04:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/double-layer-electrode-design-powers-next-gen-silicon-based-batteries-for-faster-charging-and-longer-range-evs"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:17:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:17:27","slug":"double-layer-electrode-design-powers-next-gen-silicon-based-batteries-for-faster-charging-and-longer-range-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/double-layer-electrode-design-powers-next-gen-silicon-based-batteries-for-faster-charging-and-longer-range-evs","title":{"rendered":"Double-layer electrode design powers next-gen silicon-based batteries for faster charging and longer range EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/double-layer-electrode-design-powers-next-gen-silicon-based-batteries-for-faster-charging-and-longer-range-evs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research, led by Queen Mary University of London, demonstrates that a double-layer electrode design, guided by fundamental science through operando imaging, shows remarkable improvements in the cyclic stability and fast-charging performance of automotive batteries, with strong potential to reduce costs by 20\u201330%.<\/p>\n<p>The research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41565-025-02027-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> today in <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i>, was led by Dr. Xuekun Lu, Senior Lecturer in Green Energy at Queen Mary University of London.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, the researchers introduce an evidence-guided double-layer design for silicon-based composite electrodes to tackle key challenges in the Si-based <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrode\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrode <\/a>\u2014 a breakthrough with strong potential for next-generation high-performance batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research, led by Queen Mary University of London, demonstrates that a double-layer electrode design, guided by fundamental science through operando imaging, shows remarkable improvements in the cyclic stability and fast-charging performance of automotive batteries, with strong potential to reduce costs by 20\u201330%. The research, published today in Nature Nanotechnology, was led by Dr. Xuekun [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223997","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=223997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}