Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Performance, though, is the rub. Sodium atoms are larger ...

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

Professor Y. Shirley Meng of the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. Image courtesy of Dr. Y. Shirley Meng If nations are to meet their sustainable energy goals, experts argue that ...

Legions of battery engineers and their supporters have sought for years to build batteries cheaper than the dominant lithium-ion technology, hoping to capture some of lithium-ion's $50 billion-a-year ...

The rising demand for lithium and environmental concerns are driving the search for alternative battery technologies. Sodium-ion, lithium-sulfur, solid-state, and silicon anode batteries are emerging ...

In the early 20th century Britain’s Royal Navy converted its ships to run on oil instead of coal. But whereas coal could be produced at home, oil had to be imported. That caused jitters: what if those ...

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Layered transition-metal oxides are among the most promising cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries because of their high theoretical capacity and low cost. However, conventional designs rely on ...

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