{"id":88490,"date":"2019-03-07T14:42:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/a-student-accidentally-created-a-rechargeable-battery-that-could-last-400-years"},"modified":"2019-03-07T14:42:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T22:42:34","slug":"a-student-accidentally-created-a-rechargeable-battery-that-could-last-400-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/a-student-accidentally-created-a-rechargeable-battery-that-could-last-400-years","title":{"rendered":"A student accidentally created a rechargeable battery that could last 400 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-student-accidentally-created-a-rechargeable-battery-that-could-last-400-years3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no better example of that than a 2016 discovery at the University of California, Irvine, by doctoral student Mya Le Thai. After playing around in the lab, she <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uci.edu\/research\/all-powered-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">made a discovery<\/a> that could lead to a rechargeable battery that could last up to 400 years. 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