{"id":1171,"date":"2020-06-03T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanotechenergy.com\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2024-01-24T15:46:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:46:52","slug":"graphene-vs-lithium-ion-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanotechenergy.com\/graphene-vs-lithium-ion-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphene Vs. Lithium-Ion Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author:&nbsp;<\/strong>Richard Kaner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally published:&nbsp;<\/strong>June 3, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Batteries have become an essential, and often forgotten, tool we need to conduct our everyday lives. Compact and reliable, batteries power everything from home smoke detectors to smartphones to electric vehicles.&nbsp; They produce energy in a compact and reliable way and we\u2019ve all come to appreciate as convenient and safe. Yet, standard lithium-ion batteries are really not so safe.&nbsp;<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inside lithium-ion batters is a thin and porous slip of polypropylene that keeps the electrodes from touching. If that separator is breached, the electrodes come in contact and get \u2018explosively\u2019 hot very quickly.&nbsp; In graphene batteries, one of the electrodes is replaced with a hybrid composite material which includes graphene. If the electrodes come in contact there is no explosion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concern regarding the dangers of lithium batteries is so great that the FAA has banned them as cargo on passenger planes. Carriers from the U.S. Postal Service to Federal Express do not want to put their employees in danger with the transport of such batteries.&nbsp; Electric cars pose a similar threat, with some manufacturers facing class-action lawsuits due to explosions from their batteries. There are thousands of lithium batteries making up the electric vehicle\u2019s battery pack. If all of these batteries ignite at the same time \u2013 something which has happened \u2013 the explosion is massive.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To learn more, check out this video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Nanotech Announces Nonflammable Battery, More Details (3:35 min)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kSE_IH8OkBo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:&nbsp;Richard Kaner Originally published:&nbsp;June 3, 2020 Batteries have become an essential, and often forgotten, tool we need to conduct our everyday lives. Compact and reliable, batteries power everything from home smoke detectors to smartphones to electric vehicles.&nbsp; They produce energy in a compact and reliable way and we\u2019ve all come to appreciate as convenient and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanotechenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanotechenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanotechenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanotechenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanotechenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanotechenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanotechenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanotechenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanotechenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanotechenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}