{"id":247249,"date":"2026-11-13T07:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/scientists-develop-a-groundbreaking-rechargeable-battery-that-runs-on-vitamin-b12"},"modified":"2026-11-13T07:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:29:26","slug":"scientists-develop-a-groundbreaking-rechargeable-battery-that-runs-on-vitamin-b12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/scientists-develop-a-groundbreaking-rechargeable-battery-that-runs-on-vitamin-b12","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Develop a Groundbreaking Rechargeable Battery That Runs on Vitamin B12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The same vitamin found in everyday foods could eventually help store surplus renewable electricity, after an experimental zinc-air battery using B12 completed up to 250 recharge cycles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The search for safer, more sustainable batteries is leading scientists to some unexpected places, including the chemistry of vitamins. Researchers at the University of C\u00f3rdoba in Spain have found that vitamin B12, a nutrient essential to human health, can also help power a rechargeable battery. Their experimental design completed up to 250 charge and discharge cycles, opening another possibility for future energy storage technology.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers developed a zinc-air battery, which generates electricity through chemical reactions involving zinc and oxygen from the surrounding air. Unlike conventional batteries that store all their reactive materials internally, zinc-air batteries draw oxygen from the environment. This makes them lighter and gives them high energy density, meaning they can store substantial energy relative to their weight. They are already used in small devices such as hearing aids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same vitamin found in everyday foods could eventually help store surplus renewable electricity, after an experimental zinc-air battery using B12 completed up to 250 recharge cycles. The search for safer, more sustainable batteries is leading scientists to some unexpected places, including the chemistry of vitamins. Researchers at the University of C\u00f3rdoba in Spain have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1506,1495,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-food","category-health","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247249","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=247249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}