{"id":14405,"date":"2023-08-26T06:11:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T00:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14405"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:52:13","slug":"sodium-ion-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sodium-ion-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sodium Ion Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Sodium Ion Battery:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These types of batteries <strong>generate electricity through a chemical reaction<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These are made up of an anode, cathode, separator and an electrolyte.<\/li>\n<li>In a sodium-ion battery, <strong>lithium ions<\/strong> are <strong>replaced with sodium ions<\/strong> in the battery\u2019s cathode, and lithium salts swapped for sodium salts in the electrolyte.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operating principle:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>When the battery is being charged, <strong>Na atoms in the cathode release electrons to the external circuit<\/strong> and become ions which migrate through the electrolyte toward the anode, where they combine with electrons from the external circuit while reacting with the layered anode material.<\/li>\n<li>This process is reversed during discharge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefits of sodium batteries<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Readily available<\/strong>:One of the most interesting aspects of this technology is the wide availability in nature of its constituent raw materials.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Safety:\u00a0 <\/strong>Sodium batteries also ensure high standards of safety because cells based on this <strong>chemical element are neither flammable nor susceptible<\/strong> to explosions or short circuits<\/li>\n<li><strong>Low-cost: <\/strong>The raw materials are readily available in nature and can be extracted at low costs and with low energy use, making sodium a material with a low impact on the environment.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Low-temperature resistance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are the properties of sodium?<\/h3>\n<p>Sodium is a soft, silvery-white metal at room temperature. It&#8217;s relatively lightweight and has a low density. It&#8217;s highly reactive and tends to rapidly oxidize in the presence of air and moisture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/start-up-ar4-tech-sodion-tie-up-to-make-sodium-ion-battery-packs\/article67230681.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Start-up AR4 Tech, Sodion tie up to make sodium-ion battery packs<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sodium Ion Battery batteries generate electricity through a chemical reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}