{"id":893,"date":"2025-10-17T01:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/?p=893"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:59:55","slug":"new-paper-in-nature-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/new-paper-in-nature-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper in Nature Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Keith on his contribution, with Chinese researchers led by Prof Guiyin Xu, that looks at battery technology.\u00a0 The paper entitled &#8220;Electron displacement polarization of high-dielectric constant fiber separators enhances interface stability,&#8221; is published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-60256-9\">Nature Communications<\/a>.\u00a0 It uses a variety of methods to understand the processes occurring in lithium ion batteries finding that the use of separators based on a phosphorylated cellulose separator (PCS) enhances performance and reduces deleterious Li growth that can short circuit the battery and reduce battery life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/10\/Nature-comm-figure.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-900\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/10\/Nature-comm-figure.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"772\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/10\/Nature-comm-figure.png 772w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/10\/Nature-comm-figure-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/files\/2025\/10\/Nature-comm-figure-768x396.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure showing the operation of a lithium battery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Keith on his contribution, with Chinese researchers led by Prof Guiyin Xu, that looks at battery technology.\u00a0 The paper entitled &#8220;Electron displacement polarization of high-dielectric constant fiber separators enhances interface stability,&#8221; is published in Nature Communications.\u00a0 It uses a variety of methods to understand the processes occurring in lithium ion batteries finding that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/keithgordon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}