To create the new batteries needed for electric vehicles, mobile devices and renewable energy storage, researchers have ...

A new paper from UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Prof. Y. Shirley Meng’s Laboratory for Energy Storage and ...

But one aspect – the texture of the metals used – has been historically overlooked.

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 ...

This creates a layer over the surface of the metal. These observations show that ... and slowly becomes smaller until it has all reacted Sodium, Na Melts to form a ball, fizzes rapidly, and ...

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 ...

However, the impact of metal texture has largely been overlooked in battery development. Soft metals like lithium and sodium ...

"Soft metals like lithium and sodium have excellent properties for being batteries' negative electrodes, with lithium considered as an ultimate anode material for future high-energy rechargeable ...