{"id":82019,"date":"2018-08-24T19:10:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/scientists-deliver-a-longer-lasting-lithium-oxygen-battery"},"modified":"2018-08-24T19:10:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:10:16","slug":"scientists-deliver-a-longer-lasting-lithium-oxygen-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/scientists-deliver-a-longer-lasting-lithium-oxygen-battery","title":{"rendered":"Scientists deliver a longer-lasting lithium-oxygen battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-deliver-a-longer-lasting-lithium-oxygen-battery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Packing more energy into batteries is the key to delivering electric cars with longer range, smartphones that can last days\u2014and cheaper electronic products all around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The promise:<\/strong> Lithium-oxygen batteries represent one of the more promising paths toward that end. They could boost energy density by an order of magnitude above conventional lithium-ion batteries\u2014in theory, at least. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6404\/777\">paper<\/a> published today in <em>Science<\/em>, researchers at the University of Waterloo identified ways of addressing some of the major hurdles to converting that potential into commercial reality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> A critical problem has been that as a lithium-oxygen battery discharges, oxygen is converted into superoxide and then lithium peroxide, reactive compounds that corrode the battery\u2019s components over time. That, in turn, limits its recharging ability\u2014and any real-world utility.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/611933\/scientists-deliver-a-longer-lasting-energy-dense-lithium-oxygen-battery\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/611933\/scienti...n-battery\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packing more energy into batteries is the key to delivering electric cars with longer range, smartphones that can last days\u2014and cheaper electronic products all around. The promise: Lithium-oxygen batteries represent one of the more promising paths toward that end. They could boost energy density by an order of magnitude above conventional lithium-ion batteries\u2014in theory, at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82019","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=82019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}