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 ...

A participant in this year’s DTECH Initiate program, Inlyte Energy is developing a long-duration utility-scale energy storage ...

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 ...

Sodium Ion Battery Market to Breach $1.2 billion by 2031 Low cost of sodium ion batteries and increasing focus on renewable energy ...

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 ...

"We realized that differences in soft metal's surface energy can really change the way it's textured," Zhang said. "Since batteries with lithium or sodium metal rely on these textures for favored ...

Scientists have discovered a new way to make batteries work better—by changing the texture of metal inside them. This finding could lead to better batteries for electric cars, mobile devices, and ...