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A high school friend once related the story about how his father, a chemist for an environmental waste concern, disposed of a problematic quantity of metallic sodium by dumping it into one of the more ...

Argonne Distinguished Fellow Christopher Johnson in lab working on advanced batteries for electric vehicle and other applications. New cathode material for sodium-ion batteries is inspired by earlier ...

Researchers at Princeton have developed an extraction technique that slashes the amount of land and time needed for the production of lithium, a vital component of the batteries at the heart of ...