Cheap sodium-sulfur battery boasts 4x the capacity of lithium-ion
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An international team of scientists eyeing next-generation energy storage solutions have demonstrated an eco-friendly and low-cost battery with some exciting potential. The group’s novel sodium-sulfur battery design offers a fourfold increase on energy capacity compared to a typical lithium-ion battery, and shapes as a promising technology for future grid-scale energy storage.
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Low-cost battery built with four times the capacity of lithium
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Full article: Review and prospects for room-temperature sodium
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Sodium battery has four times the capacity of lithium batteries
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A room-temperature sodium–sulfur battery with high capacity and
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