{"id":117319,"date":"2022-10-21T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=117319"},"modified":"2022-10-18T10:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T08:53:59","slug":"seaweed-based-battery-powers-confidence-in-sustainable-energy-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/seaweed-based-battery-powers-confidence-in-sustainable-energy-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaweed-based battery powers confidence in sustainable energy storage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Computer generated picture. \u00a9<\/strong> Chemie.de<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sodium-metal batteries (SMBs) are one of the most promising high-energy and low-cost energy storage systems for the next-generation of large-scale applications. However, one of the major impediments to the development of SMBs is uncontrolled dendrite growth, which penetrate the battery\u2019s separator and result in short-circuiting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building on previous work at the\u00a0University of Bristol<\/a>\u00a0and in collaboration with\u00a0Imperial College and University College London, the team has succeeded in making a separator from cellulose nanomaterials derived from brown seaweed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research, published in\u00a0Advanced Materials<\/a>, describes how fibres containing these seaweed-derived nanomaterials not only stop crystals from the sodium electrodes penetrating the separator, they also improve the performance of the batteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe aim of a separator is to separate the functioning parts of a battery (the plus and the minus ends) and allow free transport of the charge. We have shown that seaweed-based materials can make the separator very strong and prevent it being punctured by metal structures made from sodium. It also allows for greater storage capacity and efficiency, increasing the lifetime of the batteries – something which is key to powering devices such as mobile phones for much longer,\u201d said Jing Wang<\/strong>, first author and PhD student in the Bristol Composites Institute (BCI).<\/p>

Dr Amaka Onyianta<\/strong>, also from the BCI, who created the cellulose nanomaterials and co-authored the research, said: \u201cI was delighted to see that these nanomaterials are able to strengthen the separator materials and enhance our capability to move towards sodium-based batteries. This means we wouldn\u2019t have to rely on scarce materials such as lithium, which is often mined unethically and uses a great deal of natural resources, such as water, to extract it.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cThis work really demonstrates that greener forms of energy storage are possible, without being destructive to the environment in their production,\u201d said Professor Steve Eichhorn<\/strong> who led the research at the Bristol Composites Institute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The next challenge is to upscale production of these materials and to supplant current lithium-based technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original publication<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Stable Sodium Metal Batteries in Carbonate Electrolytes Achieved by Bifunctional, Sustainable Separators with Tailored Alignment\u2019 by Stephen Eichhorn, Amaka Onyianta  and Jing Wang et al in Advanced Materials<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sodium-metal batteries (SMBs) are one of the most promising high-energy and low-cost energy storage systems for the next-generation of large-scale applications. However, one of the major impediments to the development of SMBs is uncontrolled dendrite growth, which penetrate the battery\u2019s separator and result in short-circuiting. Building on previous work at the\u00a0University of Bristol\u00a0and in collaboration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Bristol-led team uses nanomaterials made from seaweed to create a strong battery separator, paving the way for greener and more efficient energy storage","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[16780,16380,14685,16733,13283,11857],"supplier":[9309,21179,336,677,4836],"class_list":["post-117319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-battery","tag-biobased","tag-biobattery","tag-energystorage","tag-seaweed","tag-sustainable","supplier-advanced-materials","supplier-bristol-composites-institute-bci","supplier-imperial-college-london","supplier-university-college-london","supplier-university-of-bristol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117319"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=117319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}