{"649547":{"#nid":"649547","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Building Better Batteries","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMany of the products and technologies that have become so much a part of our everyday lives, such as our vehicles, cell phones, and lap top computers, cannot function without long-lasting, rechargeable batteries. But the batteries that currently dominate the market have two major limitations - energy capacity and charge rate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech are developing a wide range of lightweight, cost-effective, and high-energy density storage devices, such as fuel cells, solar cells, high-energy density batteries, and supercapacitors to address these limitations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearch encompasses state-of-the-art facilities, such as the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fcbt.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECenter for Innovative Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;a multidisciplinary center focused on improving the performance and cost of batteries for use in wireless telecommunications, electric cars and stationery storage systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" Many of the products and technologies that have become so much a part of our everyday lives, such as our vehicles, cell phones, and lap top computers, cannot function without long-lasting, rechargeable batteries."}],"uid":"35801","created_gmt":"2021-08-12 04:58:45","changed_gmt":"2021-08-12 04:58:45","author":"vkaza3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"7826","name":"Batteries"},{"id":"188563","name":"energy capacity"},{"id":"188564","name":"charge rate"},{"id":"188565","name":"innovative fuel cell"},{"id":"188566","name":"battery technologies"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}