He also gave the reaction a jump-start with a small amount of sodium metal, which can be produced by the lower-yielding but far more spectacular thermochemical dioxane method; lithium harvested ...

To create the new batteries needed for electric vehicles, mobile devices and renewable energy storage, researchers have ...

I had always known how reactive sodium is, ever since demonstrations in chemistry class where a flake of the soft gray metal would dance about in a petri dish full of water and eventually light up ...

But one aspect – the texture of the metals used – has been historically overlooked.

A new paper has demonstrated that improving the texture of the soft metal used in battery anodes greatly improved performance. The team added a thin layer of silicon between lithium metal and the ...

A small piece of sodium metal is placed in a flask of chlorine gas. A little water helps expose the sodium so it can react with the chlorine gas. The reaction releases a lot of heat as the ionic ...

In a recent study, researchers used a concept called 'frustrated Lewis pairs' to develop a transition metal-free catalyst ... and less toxic Lewis acid -- and sodium (Na). The modified material ...

When sodium is cut or scratched ... Corrosion close corrosionThe destruction of a metal by oxidation or chemical action, eg rusting. happens when a metal continues to oxidise.

A sodium-doped, transition metal-free amorphous SiBN ceramic, composed of silicon (Si), boron (B), and nitrogen (N), was designed for small molecule activation and catalysis. The strategic ...