{"677443":{"#nid":"677443","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Battery discovery could \u2018revolutionise\u2019 electric cars, scientists say","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team from Georgia Tech in the US made the breakthrough while researching the cathodes for lithium-ion batteries, which are found in everything from laptops to electric cars.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDescribed as a \u201crevolutionary material\u201d, the iron chloride cathode that they developed costs just 1-2 per cent of a typical cathode capable of storing a comparable amount of electricity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor a long time, people have been looking for a lower-cost, more sustainable alternative to existing cathode materials. I think we\u2019ve got one,\u201d said Hailong Chen, an associate professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2024-10-10 13:24:39","changed_gmt":"2024-10-10 14:26:08","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Independent","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/tech\/battery-breakthrough-electric-car-b2617985.html","dateline":{"date":"2024-09-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-09-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675272":{"id":"675272","type":"image","title":"electric-car-battery-breakthrough-charging.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EA new cathode material discovered by researchers at Georgia Tech in the US costs 1-2 per cent of traditional materials with similar capacity\u003Cem\u003E (iStock\/ Getty Images)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1728570184","gmt_created":"2024-10-10 14:23:04","changed":"1728570184","gmt_changed":"2024-10-10 14:23:04","alt":"A new cathode material discovered by researchers at Georgia Tech in the US costs 1-2 per cent of traditional materials with similar capacity (iStock\/ Getty Images)","file":{"fid":"258876","name":"electric-car-battery-breakthrough-charging.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/10\/electric-car-battery-breakthrough-charging.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/10\/electric-car-battery-breakthrough-charging.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":153004,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/10\/10\/electric-car-battery-breakthrough-charging.jpg?itok=AQyOCbTp"}}},"media_ids":["675272"],"groups":[{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"188853","name":"go-seiinthenews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}