{"id":77585,"date":"2018-04-07T23:28:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T06:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/sodium-ion-battery-packs-a-punch"},"modified":"2018-04-07T23:28:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T06:28:03","slug":"sodium-ion-battery-packs-a-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/sodium-ion-battery-packs-a-punch","title":{"rendered":"Sodium-ion battery packs a punch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sodium-ion-battery-packs-a-punch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new sodium-ion battery chemistry that shows superior performance to existing state-of-the-art sodium-based batteries could be the catalyst to enabling mass-production of the emerging technology for large-scale energy storage, such as in applications including storing solar power for industrial sites.<\/p>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/charging-ahead-how-australia-is-innovating-in-battery-technology-90169\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">sodium\u2019s appeal<\/a> as a low-cost, abundant and environmentally friendly building block for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a> storage, it is a relatively new entrant in the field of battery technology research and development.<\/p>\n<p>A key issue for sodium-ion batteries is that many of the active materials used in their chemistry are sensitive to air\u2014exposure to even a few molecules of air can degrade the material and reduce battery performance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-04-sodium-ion-battery.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;04-sodium-ion-battery.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new sodium-ion battery chemistry that shows superior performance to existing state-of-the-art sodium-based batteries could be the catalyst to enabling mass-production of the emerging technology for large-scale energy storage, such as in applications including storing solar power for industrial sites. Despite sodium\u2019s appeal as a low-cost, abundant and environmentally friendly building block for energy storage, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77585","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}