{"id":96447,"date":"2019-09-19T23:24:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/nanochains-could-increase-battery-capacity-cut-charging-time"},"modified":"2019-09-19T23:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:24:15","slug":"nanochains-could-increase-battery-capacity-cut-charging-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/nanochains-could-increase-battery-capacity-cut-charging-time","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nanochains\u2019 could increase battery capacity, cut charging time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanochains-could-increase-battery-capacity-cut-charging-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How long the battery of your phone or computer lasts depends on how many lithium ions can be stored in the battery\u2019s negative electrode material. If the battery runs out of these ions, it can\u2019t generate an electrical current to run a device and ultimately fails.<\/p>\n<p>Materials with a higher <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/lithium+ion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lithium ion<\/a> storage capacity are either too heavy or the wrong shape to replace graphite, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrode+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrode material<\/a> currently used in today\u2019s batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Purdue University scientists and engineers have introduced a potential way that these materials could be restructured into a new electrode design that would allow them to increase a battery\u2019s lifespan, make it more stable and shorten its charging time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long the battery of your phone or computer lasts depends on how many lithium ions can be stored in the battery\u2019s negative electrode material. If the battery runs out of these ions, it can\u2019t generate an electrical current to run a device and ultimately fails. Materials with a higher lithium ion storage capacity are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96447","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=96447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}