{"id":227860,"date":"2025-12-26T05:25:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/redesigned-carbon-molecules-boost-battery-safety-durability-and-power"},"modified":"2025-12-26T05:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:25:48","slug":"redesigned-carbon-molecules-boost-battery-safety-durability-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/redesigned-carbon-molecules-boost-battery-safety-durability-and-power","title":{"rendered":"Redesigned carbon molecules boost battery safety, durability and power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/redesigned-carbon-molecules-boost-battery-safety-durability-and-power.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jacs.5c17338\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>Journal of the American Chemical Society<\/i> demonstrates a new way to make carbon-based battery materials much safer, longer lasting, and more powerful by fundamentally redesigning how fullerene molecules are connected.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries rely mainly on graphite, which limits fast-charging speed and poses safety risks due to lithium plating. These research findings mean progress toward safer electric vehicles, longer-lasting consumer electronics, and more reliable renewable-energy storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society demonstrates a new way to make carbon-based battery materials much safer, longer lasting, and more powerful by fundamentally redesigning how fullerene molecules are connected. Today\u2019s lithium-ion batteries rely mainly on graphite, which limits fast-charging speed and poses safety risks due to lithium plating. These research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227860","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=227860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}