{"id":337572,"date":"2025-05-21T14:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=337572"},"modified":"2025-05-28T18:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:54:43","slug":"super-fast-charging-sodium-ion-batteries-sibs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/super-fast-charging-sodium-ion-batteries-sibs\/","title":{"rendered":"Super-Fast Charging Sodium-Ion Batteries (SIBs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: A research team at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) has developed a super-fast charging sodium-ion battery (SIB).<\/p>\n<h2>About Super-Fast Charging Sodium-Ion Batteries (SIBs)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_337574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337574\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-337574\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-DST.png?resize=249%2C343&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-DST.png?resize=218%2C300&amp;ssl=1 218w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-DST.png?w=295&amp;ssl=1 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-337574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; DST<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The battery is based on a <strong>NASICON-type cathode and anode material<\/strong> that can charge up to <strong>80% in just six minutes<\/strong> and last over <strong>3000 charge cycles<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Innovations involved:\u00a0<\/strong>This new battery uses a <strong>clever mix of chemistry and nanotechnology.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The team engineered a <strong>novel material for the anode<\/strong>\u2014<strong>Na\u2081.\u2080V\u2080.\u2082\u2085Al\u2080.\u2082\u2085Nb\u2081.\u2085(PO\u2084)\u2083<\/strong>\u2014and optimized it in <strong>three critical ways<\/strong> \u2013\n<ul>\n<li>shrinking the particles to nanoscale<\/li>\n<li>wrapping them in a thin carbon coat<\/li>\n<li>improving the anode material by adding a small amount of aluminium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These tweaks made <strong>sodium ions move faster<\/strong> and more safely, enabling both <strong>speed and durability.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Advantages of Sodium-Ion Batteries (SIBs)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sodium is <strong>cheap<\/strong> and <strong>abundantly<\/strong> available in India, unlike <strong>lithium<\/strong> which is <strong>scarce<\/strong> and largely <strong>imported<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A battery built on sodium instead of lithium could <strong>help the country to become self-reliant in energy storage technology.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"811\">\n<h2>Sodium Ion Battery<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The sodium-ion battery (NIB or SIB) is a type of <strong>rechargeable<\/strong> battery that uses <strong>sodium ions (Na+) as its charge carriers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They have a <strong>similar design to their lithium-ion counterparts<\/strong> and can be manufactured using related methods.<\/li>\n<li>Both battery types generate electricity through a chemical reaction and are made up of an <strong>anode, cathode, separator and an electrolyte<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>But in a sodium-ion battery, <strong>lithium ions are replaced with sodium ions<\/strong> in the battery\u2019s cathode, and <strong>lithium salts swapped for sodium salts<\/strong> in the electrolyte.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A research team at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) has developed a super-fast charging sodium-ion battery (SIB). About Super-Fast Charging Sodium-Ion Batteries (SIBs) The battery is based on a NASICON-type cathode and anode material that can charge up to 80% in just six minutes and last over 3000 charge cycles.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/super-fast-charging-sodium-ion-batteries-sibs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Super-Fast Charging Sodium-Ion Batteries (SIBs)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":337574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-337572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Source-DST.png?fit=295%2C406&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}