A high school friend once related the story about how his father, a chemist for an environmental waste concern, disposed of a problematic quantity of metallic sodium by dumping it into one of the more ...

"SODIUM IS a small world," says Frédéric Chaminant, sales director of France's Métaux Spéciaux SA, the world's largest sodium metal producer. Global demand of 80,000 to 90,000 metric tons per year is ...

Transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) allow researchers at the forefront of energy technology to study next-generation ...

When melting sodium at high pressures, the material goes through a transition in which its electrical conductivity drops threefold. Usually when a solid melts, its volume increases. In addition, when ...

Sodium layered oxide-based cathodes of sodium-ion batteries commonly suffer from structural degradation. Here, authors propose entropy regulation with zero Li/Co usage to suppress lattice strain, ...

Lithium-based batteries are great, with different electrode chemistries allowing them to be slotted into a variety of uses. The problem with them has nothing to do with their performance. The ...

Lithium-ion batteries are the standard power source for electronics. But lithium is neither cheap nor plentiful, making Li-ion batteries impractical for larger applications, such as storing wind and ...

They power tiny phones and two-tonne electric cars. They form the guts of a growing number of grid-storage systems that smooth the flow of electricity from wind and solar power stations. Without them, ...

New research published in Joule from the Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA), University of Chicago Pritzker School of ...