{"id":85318,"date":"2019-08-14T15:39:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T10:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9152"},"modified":"2019-08-14T15:39:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T10:09:39","slug":"iit-madras-registers-initial-success-with-iron-ion-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/iit-madras-registers-initial-success-with-iron-ion-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT Madras registers initial success with iron ion battery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Madras have for the first time fabricated a rechargeable iron ion battery using mild steel as the anode.<\/li><li>Currently,lithium-ion batteries are widely in use.However,the lithium reserves are limited when compared to iron reserves and hence the invention assume significance.<\/li><li>Further,this invention comes at a time when the world is moving towards adopting electric vehicles which need cheaper batteries.<\/li><li>The iron ion battery are also cost-effective and the amount of energy that can be stored in the battery is also high.<\/li><li>Researchers have also demonstrated the performance of iron ions battery for 150 cycles of charging and discharging.It has displayed good stability with 54% capacity retention at the end of 50 cycles.<\/li><li>In Iron ion battery,vanadium pentoxide is used as the cathode.Vanadium pentoxide was chosen as it has a layered structure with very large spacing between the layers.<\/li><li>There are various benefits of iron over Lithium such as (a)Iron has favourable physico-chemical properties like lithium (b)The redox potential of iron ion is higher than lithium ion and (c)Iron is more stable during the charging process and therefore prevents short-circuiting of the batteries.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Madras have for the first time fabricated a rechargeable iron ion battery using mild steel as the anode. Currently,lithium-ion batteries are widely in use.However,the lithium reserves are limited when compared to iron reserves and hence the invention assume significance. Further,this invention comes at a time when the world is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/iit-madras-registers-initial-success-with-iron-ion-battery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IIT Madras registers initial success with iron ion battery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2606,2607],"class_list":["post-85318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-iit-madras","tag-iron-ore-battery","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704908948},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85318","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}