{"id":114976,"date":"2020-10-26T09:37:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976//?p=114976"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:46:28","slug":"ucf-researcher-is-working-to-extend-battery-life-in-smartphones-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976//ucf-researcher-is-working-to-extend-battery-life-in-smartphones-electric-cars/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Researcher Is Working to Extend Battery Life in Smartphones, Electric Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 色花堂 researcher is working to make portable devices and electric vehicles stay charged longer by extending the life of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries powering them./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976/n

Assistant Professor Yang Yang is doing this by making the batteries more efficient, with some of his latest work focusing on keeping an internal metal structure, the anode, from falling apart over time by applying a thin, film-like coating of copper and tin. The new technique is detailed in a recent study in the journal Advanced Materials./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976/n

An anode generates electrons that travel to a similar structure, the cathode, inside the battery, thus creating a current and power./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976/u201cOur work has shown that the rate of degradation of the anode can be reduced by more than 1,000 percent by using a copper-tin film compared to a tin film that is often used,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976/u201d said Yang, who is with UCF/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976/u2019s NanoScience Technology Center./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/114976/n