{"id":518987,"date":"2010-04-07T02:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/breakthrough-at-mit-could-push-lithium-air-battery-closer-to-reality\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T02:02:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T06:02:44","slug":"breakthrough-at-mit-could-push-lithium-air-batteries-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518987","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough at MIT could push lithium-air batteries closer to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/04\/07\/lithium-air-battery_Gw3ne_69.jpg\" alt=\"lithium air battery\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Newly developed process to aid the development of lightweight rechargeable lithium-air batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Lithium-air batteries have long been in concept as a system that can offer up to three times the energy density of conventional Li-ion counterparts. However, the lack of understanding of what kinds of electrode materials could promote the electrochemical reactions that take place in these batteries didn\u2019t help their development.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/\">MIT<\/a> have made a breakthrough that could aid the development of lightweight lithium-air or lithium-oxygen batteries. The report points that electrode with gold or platinum as a catalyst show a much higher level of activity and higher efficiency than conventional carbon electrodes. This new work has paved the way for future research that can lead to better electrode materials.<\/p>\n<p>The team does admit that there are still a number of issues that need to be addressed before the batteries become a commercial product. The researchers opine that the first applications of the batteries will be in portable electronic devices such as computers and cellphones, with high-value items to be added to the list later.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/lithium-air-battery\/14720\/\">Gizmag<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Newly developed process to aid the development of lightweight rechargeable lithium-air batteries. Lithium-air batteries have long been in concept as a system that can offer up to three times the energy density of conventional Li-ion counterparts. However, the lack of understanding of what kinds of electrode materials could promote the electrochemical reactions that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}