{"id":240320,"date":"2026-07-05T07:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/team-uses-3d-printing-to-develop-zinc-ion-hybrid-battery-with-seven-times-more-energy"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T12:08:57","slug":"team-uses-3d-printing-to-develop-zinc-ion-hybrid-battery-with-seven-times-more-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/team-uses-3d-printing-to-develop-zinc-ion-hybrid-battery-with-seven-times-more-energy","title":{"rendered":"Team uses 3D printing to develop zinc-ion hybrid battery with seven times more energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-uses-3d-printing-to-develop-zinc-ion-hybrid-battery-with-seven-times-more-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Storing solar and wind energy to meet the increasing power needs of the electrical grid calls for devices that can deliver power quickly, recharge quickly and last for decades at low cost. A new study led by UCLA has uncovered a technology that could meet all these criteria: a zinc-ion hybrid battery with a 3D-printed electrode that stores more than seven times the charge of similar hybrids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2023-09-zinc-ion-batteries-renewable-energy-storage.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Energy storage based on zinc instead of lithium<\/a> would be cheaper and more sustainable because zinc is 100 times more abundant, easier to mine and easier to recycle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future of energy storage won\u2019t be defined by a single technology,\u201d said co-corresponding author Maher El-Kady, an assistant researcher in UCLA College\u2019s chemistry and biochemistry department. \u201cAt some point, we will need to look for something to complement the current options for grid-scale energy storage. What we\u2019ve done in this study essentially gives us zinc-ion hybrid devices that can store nearly one order of magnitude higher capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storing solar and wind energy to meet the increasing power needs of the electrical grid calls for devices that can deliver power quickly, recharge quickly and last for decades at low cost. A new study led by UCLA has uncovered a technology that could meet all these criteria: a zinc-ion hybrid battery with a 3D-printed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240320","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}