{"id":52060,"date":"2017-04-17T07:42:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/this-new-graphene-based-electrode-could-boost-solar-storage"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:46:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:46:53","slug":"this-new-graphene-based-electrode-could-boost-solar-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/this-new-graphene-based-electrode-could-boost-solar-storage","title":{"rendered":"This New Graphene-Based Electrode Could Boost Solar Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-graphene-based-electrode-could-boost-solar-storage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drawing inspiration from the plant world, researchers have invented a new electrode that could boost our current solar energy storage by an astonishing 3,000 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The technology is flexible and can be attached directly to solar cells \u2014 which means we could finally be one step closer to smartphones and laptops that draw their power from the Sun, and never run out.<\/p>\n<p>A major problem with reliably using solar energy as a power source is finding an efficient way to store it for later use without leakage over time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-graphene-based-electrode-could-boost-solar-energy-storage-by-3-000\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-graphene-based-electrode-cou...-3&#45;000<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing inspiration from the plant world, researchers have invented a new electrode that could boost our current solar energy storage by an astonishing 3,000 percent. The technology is flexible and can be attached directly to solar cells \u2014 which means we could finally be one step closer to smartphones and laptops that draw their power [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52060","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=52060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65175,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52060\/revisions\/65175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}