{"id":96061,"date":"2019-09-10T23:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/stretchy-plastic-electrolytes-could-enable-new-lithium-ion-battery-design"},"modified":"2019-09-10T23:42:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:42:45","slug":"stretchy-plastic-electrolytes-could-enable-new-lithium-ion-battery-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/stretchy-plastic-electrolytes-could-enable-new-lithium-ion-battery-design","title":{"rendered":"Stretchy plastic electrolytes could enable new lithium-ion battery design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stretchy-plastic-electrolytes-could-enable-new-lithium-ion-battery-design2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The growing popularity of lithium-ion batteries in recent years has put a strain on the world\u2019s supply of cobalt and nickel\u2014two metals integral to current battery designs\u2014and sent prices surging.<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to develop alternative designs for lithium-based batteries with less reliance on those <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/scarce+metals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">scarce metals<\/a>, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a promising new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cathode\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cathode<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrolyte\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrolyte<\/a> system that replaces expensive metals and traditional liquid electrolyte with lower cost transition metal fluorides and a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solid+polymer+electrolyte\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solid polymer electrolyte<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElectrodes made from transition metal fluorides have long shown stability problems and rapid failure, leading to significant skepticism about their ability to be used in next generation batteries,\u201d said Gleb Yushin, a professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Materials Science and Engineering. \u201cBut we\u2019ve shown that when used with a solid polymer electrolyte, the metal fluorides show remarkable stability\u2014even at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/higher+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">higher temperatures<\/a>\u2014which could eventually lead to safer, lighter and cheaper lithium-ion batteries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growing popularity of lithium-ion batteries in recent years has put a strain on the world\u2019s supply of cobalt and nickel\u2014two metals integral to current battery designs\u2014and sent prices surging. In a bid to develop alternative designs for lithium-based batteries with less reliance on those scarce metals, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96061","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}