By Mary Catherine Frantz,intern, Voiland College of Engineering and ArchitecturePULLMAN, or Wash. – Sodium-ion batteries might soon provide a less expensive,viable alternative to lithium-ion batteries thanks to research developed at Washington State University.
The current technology also would help solve fabric sustainability issues by alleviating the mining of lithium – a diminishing resource.
Led by professors Min-Kyu Song and Yuehe Lin in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, the researchers used tiny tin oxide nanocrystals supported on a graphene structure to vastly improve the battery. The technology also could be ... » More ...
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