{"id":227495,"date":"2025-12-20T01:19:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/scientists-solve-a-hidden-battery-cracking-mystery-that-shortens-lifespan-and-raises-fire-risk"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:19:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:19:34","slug":"scientists-solve-a-hidden-battery-cracking-mystery-that-shortens-lifespan-and-raises-fire-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/scientists-solve-a-hidden-battery-cracking-mystery-that-shortens-lifespan-and-raises-fire-risk","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Solve a Hidden Battery Cracking Mystery That Shortens Lifespan and Raises Fire Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-solve-a-hidden-battery-cracking-mystery-that-shortens-lifespan-and-raises-fire-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study shows that promising single-crystal battery materials degrade for reasons scientists hadn\u2019t fully recognized before. Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory and the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have identified the source of a long-standing problem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that promising single-crystal battery materials degrade for reasons scientists hadn\u2019t fully recognized before. Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory and the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have identified the source of a long-standing problem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227495","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=227495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}