{"id":237470,"date":"2026-05-20T04:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/electric-double-layer-unlocks-molecular-switch-behind-battery-and-hydrogen-reactions"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:46:15","slug":"electric-double-layer-unlocks-molecular-switch-behind-battery-and-hydrogen-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/electric-double-layer-unlocks-molecular-switch-behind-battery-and-hydrogen-reactions","title":{"rendered":"Electric double layer unlocks molecular switch behind battery and hydrogen reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electric-double-layer-unlocks-molecular-switch-behind-battery-and-hydrogen-reactions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From smartphone charging to hydrogen production, the fundamental principles of energy technology have been revealed. Korean researchers have, for the first time, identified how molecular structures change within the ultra-small space called the \u201celectric double layer.\u201d The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-70322-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, opens a new path to simultaneously improve efficiency and performance in battery, hydrogen, and carbon-neutral technologies by reducing energy loss and selectively inducing desired reactions.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Professor Hyungjun Kim from the Department of Chemistry, in collaboration with Professor Chang Hyuck Choi from POSTECH and Professor Seung-Jae Shin from UNIST, has identified structural phase transitions (phenomena in which the state or arrangement of matter changes) occurring within the electric double layer.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, they revealed at the molecular level the cause of the phenomenon in which the pattern of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-11-generality-specificity-unraveling-electric-layer.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">electrical storage capacity<\/a> (capacitance) changes from a camel shape to a bell shape depending on electrolyte concentration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From smartphone charging to hydrogen production, the fundamental principles of energy technology have been revealed. Korean researchers have, for the first time, identified how molecular structures change within the ultra-small space called the \u201celectric double layer.\u201d The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, opens a new path to simultaneously improve efficiency and performance in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237470","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=237470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}