{"id":201476,"date":"2024-11-02T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/?p=201476"},"modified":"2024-11-01T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:47:32","slug":"zinc-anodes-increase-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/zinc-anodes-increase-battery-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Zinc batteries with extended lifespan boost renewable energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has achieved a breakthrough in zinc batteries, extending their lifespan from thousands to hundreds of thousands of charge and discharge cycles. This improvement could position zinc batteries as a cost-effective and more sustainable alternative to lithium-ion<\/a><\/strong> batteries in large-scale storage. <\/p>\n\n

The breakthrough is due to an ultra-thin protective layer on the zinc anodes that prevents common problems such as dendrite growth, structures that shorten lifespan and affect performance. This special coating, made from a porous organic polymer called TpBD-2F, protects the anode from contact with water, allowing zinc ions to flow through nanochannels efficiently<\/a><\/strong> . <\/p>\n\n

Zinc anodes extend battery life<\/h2>\n\n

Da Lei, a PhD student and principal investigator on the project, said zinc-ion batteries with this new coating could replace lithium batteries in renewable energy installations<\/a><\/strong> , such as solar or wind power plants<\/a><\/strong> , due to their long life, safety, and the lower cost and availability of zinc compared to lithium, which has a greater environmental impact and represents a higher cost in large-scale applications. <\/p>\n\n

Professor Roland A. Fischer, who leads the team at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at TUM, said that they have already developed a prototype of a button cell and that the results have been controllable and replicable. Now, the next step is up to the engineers, who will have to translate these findings into large-scale production processes in order to make their application on the market a reality. <\/p>\n\n

This breakthrough represents a leap forward in zinc battery<\/a><\/strong> research and could usher in a more sustainable approach to energy storage, crucial to the adoption of renewable energy sources<\/a><\/strong> .<\/p>\n\n

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Source and internal photo: Technical University of Munich<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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Zinc batteries with improved anodes could withstand up to 100 times more charge cycles than lithium batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9014,"featured_media":200918,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13044],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-201476","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-new-energies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/201476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/201476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=201476"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=201476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}