Team develops world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery
Thursday 11 Jul 2024
A team from the Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion in the US has created the world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery.
LESC believes the research brings forward the reality of inexpensive, fast-charging, high-capacity batteries for electric vehicles and grid storage. Their findings, detailed in Nature Energy, demonstrate a new sodium battery architecture with stable cycling for several hundred cycles.
Read more in The Engineer here.
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