{"id":82126,"date":"2018-08-27T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T19:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/this-bright-blue-dye-is-found-in-fabric-could-it-also-power-batteries"},"modified":"2018-08-27T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T19:02:23","slug":"this-bright-blue-dye-is-found-in-fabric-could-it-also-power-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/this-bright-blue-dye-is-found-in-fabric-could-it-also-power-batteries","title":{"rendered":"This bright blue dye is found in fabric. Could it also power batteries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ifEnIB4jnus?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A sapphire-colored dye called methylene blue is a common ingredient in wastewater from textile mills.<\/p>\n<p>But University at Buffalo scientists think it may be possible to give this industrial pollutant a second life. In a new study, they show that the dye, when dissolved in water, is good at storing and releasing energy on cue.<\/p>\n<p>This makes the compound a promising candidate material for redox flow batteries\u2014large, rechargeable liquid-based batteries that could enable future wind farms and solar homes to stockpile electricity for calm or rainy days.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-08-bright-blue-dye-fabric-power.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;08-bright-blue-dye-fabric-power.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sapphire-colored dye called methylene blue is a common ingredient in wastewater from textile mills. But University at Buffalo scientists think it may be possible to give this industrial pollutant a second life. In a new study, they show that the dye, when dissolved in water, is good at storing and releasing energy on cue. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82126","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=82126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}