Goodbye to lithium? The new sodium battery, safer and more economical, promises more than 5,000 hours of useful life.

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 ...

Iron-sodium batteries have quietly crossed a threshold that grid planners have been waiting on for years: a full-scale system ...

Sodium layered oxide-based cathodes of sodium-ion batteries commonly suffer from structural degradation. Here, authors propose entropy regulation with zero Li/Co usage to suppress lattice strain, ...

Rockville , March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global sodium metal market is valued at US$ 385.8 million in 2024 and is projected to expand at a 4.3% CAGR through 2034. The sodium metal market ...

Bluetti’s new power station uses sodium-ion batteries that perform better in extreme cold than lithium-based options.

As grid operators search for reliable alternatives to lithium-ion technology, iron-sodium batteries are gaining momentum as a viable option for large-scale energy storage. Built on abundant and ...

"SODIUM IS a small world," says Frédéric Chaminant, sales director of France's Métaux Spéciaux SA, the world's largest sodium metal producer. Global demand of 80,000 to 90,000 metric tons per year is ...

Scientists have developed a new sodium metal anode for rechargeable batteries that resists the formation of dendrites, a common problem with standard sodium metal anodes that can lead to shorting and ...