{"id":28681,"date":"2016-08-04T21:47:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T04:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/chemists-create-vitamin-driven-battery"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:27:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:27:21","slug":"chemists-create-vitamin-driven-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/chemists-create-vitamin-driven-battery","title":{"rendered":"Chemists create vitamin-driven battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemists-create-vitamin-driven-battery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of University of Toronto chemists has created a battery that stores energy in a biologically-derived unit, paving the way for cheaper consumer electronics that are easier on the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The battery is similar to many commercially-available high-energy lithium-ion batteries with one important difference. It uses flavin from vitamin B2 as the cathode: the part that stores the electricity that is released when connected to a device.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been looking to nature for a while to find complex molecules for use in a number of consumer electronics applications,\u201d says Dwight Seferos, an associate professor in U of T\u2019s department of chemistry and Canada Research Chair in Polymer Nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techmezine.com\/top-10-news\/chemists-create-vitamin-driven-battery\/\">http:\/\/www.techmezine.com\/top-10-news\/chemists-create-vitamin-driven-battery\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of University of Toronto chemists has created a battery that stores energy in a biologically-derived unit, paving the way for cheaper consumer electronics that are easier on the environment. The battery is similar to many commercially-available high-energy lithium-ion batteries with one important difference. It uses flavin from vitamin B2 as the cathode: the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28681","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=28681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66663,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28681\/revisions\/66663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}