{"id":81084,"date":"2018-07-31T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/laser-blasted-graphene-boosts-capacity-of-sodium-ion-batteries"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:01:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:01:36","slug":"laser-blasted-graphene-boosts-capacity-of-sodium-ion-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/laser-blasted-graphene-boosts-capacity-of-sodium-ion-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Laser-blasted graphene boosts capacity of sodium-ion batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-blasted-graphene-boosts-capacity-of-sodium-ion-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lithium-ion batteries are effective, but they can be a bit on the expensive side. Striking a balance between common materials and efficiency is important, and regular old salt looks like it could fit the bill \u2013 after a few kinks are ironed out. Now, researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a way to make \u201cdisordered\u201d graphene that can help improve the <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/sodium-ion-battery-cheaper-lithium\/51682\/\" target=\"_blank\">sodium-ion battery<\/a> recipe.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/sodium-ion-battery-graphene\/55691\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/sodium-ion-battery-graphene\/55691\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithium-ion batteries are effective, but they can be a bit on the expensive side. Striking a balance between common materials and efficiency is important, and regular old salt looks like it could fit the bill \u2013 after a few kinks are ironed out. Now, researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81084","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=81084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81090,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81084\/revisions\/81090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}