Batteries that use a sodium-ion chemistry rather than the commonplace lithium-ion could offer a number of advantages, owing to the cheap and abundant nature of the element. Scientists at Washington ...

A few years ago, Alan Jaras told a science fiction story on Flickr, using images of crystals he’d photographed under a microscope. He called it MicroWorld. Here are a few of the breathtaking images ...

Jeremy Hobson: Well if you’re heading to a Memorial Day barbeque later today, get ready for the burgers, hot dogs, chips, pickles. Well, let’s just say salt. Doctors tell us we should watch how much ...

R esearchers in Canada have just unveiled a new solid-state sodium battery design that could potentially lead to cheaper, ...

Just like standard lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries work by sending ions back and forth between a pair of electrodes in a liquid electrolyte, but current designs have their limitations. A ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A method of preparing very small crystals of uniform and controlled size has been developed and used to study the decomposition of sodium and ...

Researchers have created a sodium-ion battery that holds as much energy and works as well as some commercial lithium-ion battery chemistries, making for a potentially viable battery technology out of ...

SEVERAL times in the past few years, samples of undried or partly dried salt cod with an accumulation of crystals appearing over the surface have been submitted to this laboratory for examination.