{"id":31241,"date":"2016-10-20T12:49:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-key-to-better-rechargeable-batteries-may-be-in-your-blood"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:08:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:08:05","slug":"the-key-to-better-rechargeable-batteries-may-be-in-your-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-key-to-better-rechargeable-batteries-may-be-in-your-blood","title":{"rendered":"The key to better rechargeable batteries may be in your blood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Traditional lithium-ion batteries may be on the way out, as scientists continue to overcome the obstacles holding back the longer-lasting lithium-oxygen batteries<\/a>. The main issue is lack of efficiency and the build-up of lithium peroxide, which reduces the electrodes\u2019 effectiveness. But now a team at Yale has used a molecule found in blood as a catalyst that not only improved the lithium-oxygen function, but may help reduce biowaste.<\/p>\n

Lithium-oxygen, or lithium-air batteries, have the potential to hold a charge for much longer than traditional lithium-ion batteries and extend the life of devices like phones to several weeks before they\u2019d need to be recharged. But before those dreams can become a reality, the problems of efficiency and lithium peroxide build-up need to be solved.<\/p>\n

Previous studies have tried to fight lithium peroxide by keeping the oxygen<\/a> in the cell as a solid, and by modifying the electrode<\/a> to produce lithium superoxide instead. In this case, the Yale researchers were looking for a new catalyst that allowed lithium oxide in the cell to decompose back into lithium ions and gaseous oxygen, and they found one in an unexpected place: animal blood.<\/p>\n

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Traditional lithium-ion batteries may be on the way out, as scientists continue to overcome the obstacles holding back the longer-lasting lithium-oxygen batteries. The main issue is lack of efficiency and the build-up of lithium peroxide, which reduces the electrodes\u2019 effectiveness. But now a team at Yale has used a molecule found in blood as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31241","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65951,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31241\/revisions\/65951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}