{"id":27763,"date":"2016-07-12T19:32:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T02:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-new-design-strategy-for-better-lithium-oxygen-batteries"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:22:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:22:53","slug":"a-new-design-strategy-for-better-lithium-oxygen-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-new-design-strategy-for-better-lithium-oxygen-batteries","title":{"rendered":"A New Design Strategy for Better Lithium Oxygen Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-design-strategy-for-better-lithium-oxygen-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yale researchers have devised a method that brings marketable Li-O<sub>2<\/sub> batteries closer to reality, improving both the batteries\u2019 performance and the ability to study them.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, lithium-oxygen batteries have intrigued researchers with their potential. They can store at least two to three times the energy as lithium-ion batteries can, which are the current standard for consumer electronics, so laptops could theoretically run longer on a single charge and electric cars would drive farther.<\/p>\n<p>But they\u2019re not quite there yet. For now, Li-O<sub>2<\/sub> batteries operate sluggishly and have short lives. Compounding matters, it\u2019s hard to get a sense of how to fix that because figuring out the exact nature of their chemistry has proved tricky.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/a-new-design-strategy-for-better-lithium-oxygen-batteries\/\">http:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/a-new-design-strategy-for-better-lit...batteries\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale researchers have devised a method that brings marketable Li-O2 batteries closer to reality, improving both the batteries\u2019 performance and the ability to study them. In recent years, lithium-oxygen batteries have intrigued researchers with their potential. They can store at least two to three times the energy as lithium-ion batteries can, which are the current [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50167,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27763\/revisions\/50167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}