{"id":228616,"date":"2026-01-09T01:17:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/new-sodium-sulfur-battery-may-offer-safer-cheaper-alternative-to-lithium"},"modified":"2026-01-09T01:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:17:58","slug":"new-sodium-sulfur-battery-may-offer-safer-cheaper-alternative-to-lithium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/new-sodium-sulfur-battery-may-offer-safer-cheaper-alternative-to-lithium","title":{"rendered":"New sodium-sulfur battery may offer safer, cheaper alternative to lithium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-sodium-sulfur-battery-may-offer-safer-cheaper-alternative-to-lithium2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to our ever-increasing reliance on electronics, researchers are always on the lookout for battery materials with more desirable qualities. Common battery materials, like lithium, can be prone to disadvantages like overheating and material sourcing issues, leading to safety risks and higher costs.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers from China have revealed a new battery design that may offer a better alternative to lithium. The new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09867-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i>, describes a sodium and sulfur-based, anode-free design offering a high voltage. The sodium\u2013sulfur (Na\u2013S) batteries are a promising alternative to lithium-based batteries due to sodium\u2019s abundance and potential for high energy storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to our ever-increasing reliance on electronics, researchers are always on the lookout for battery materials with more desirable qualities. Common battery materials, like lithium, can be prone to disadvantages like overheating and material sourcing issues, leading to safety risks and higher costs. Now, researchers from China have revealed a new battery design that may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228616","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=228616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}