{"id":96960,"date":"2019-10-02T18:42:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T01:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/li-co2-batteries-promise-7-times-the-energy-density-of-lithium-iion"},"modified":"2019-10-02T18:42:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T01:42:34","slug":"li-co2-batteries-promise-7-times-the-energy-density-of-lithium-iion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/li-co2-batteries-promise-7-times-the-energy-density-of-lithium-iion","title":{"rendered":"Li-CO2 Batteries Promise 7 Times The Energy Density Of Lithium-Iion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/li-co2-batteries-promise-7-times-the-energy-density-of-lithium-iion3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may think that lithium-ion batteries are the best man can create, but researchers believe otherwise. There are other combinations of elements that are very promising. What about a cell with potential for seven times more energy density than Li-Ion could ever achieve? State of the art for current batteries would be 256 Wh\/kg. Lithium-Carbon Dioxide batteries \u2013 or Li-CO2, for short \u2013 can theoretically reach 1,876 Wh\/kg. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago created the first usable Li-CO2 battery. It was tested to up to 500 cycles, and it worked, which is great news.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago created the first usable Li-CO2 battery. It has 7 times the energy density of a Li-Ion battery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may think that lithium-ion batteries are the best man can create, but researchers believe otherwise. There are other combinations of elements that are very promising. What about a cell with potential for seven times more energy density than Li-Ion could ever achieve? State of the art for current batteries would be 256 Wh\/kg. Lithium-Carbon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96960","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}