Ultimately, Form chose a more traditional battery concept, but the idea stuck with Chiang, who decided to explore it with other metals and landed on the idea of a sodium-based fuel cell.

Chinese researchers have designed a groundbreaking smart gel polymer electrolyte that enhances both the safety and durability of sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries, aiming to unlock their full potential ...

Scientists have developed a fuel cell system which they say could ... simply by swapping in freshly-refilled cartridges full of liquid sodium metal. This capability addresses an issue with ...

Zero-emissions air travel may be one step closer after scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled a new type of sodium fuel cell that could one day make electric-powered ...

MIT boffins have built a prototype fuel cell using liquid sodium and air that could one day power aircraft, and may help capture carbon through its byproducts.… Skeptical? You can be forgiven.

Mana addresses these issues and delivers on the promise of the sodium-ion battery with a proprietary low-cost, safe material and battery cell design platform, providing similar energy to Li-ion ...

a 6.25MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS), a specialized sodium-ion battery for utility-scale energy storage, and an installation-free home microgrid system. On Thursday ...

A typical sodium-ion battery has an energy density of about 150 watt-hours per kilogram at the cell level, he said. Lithium-ion batteries can range from about 180 to nearly 300 watt-hours per ...

MIT’s sodium-air fuel cell offers 3x energy density and carbon-capturing byproducts—bringing electric flight closer to reality.

An American study recently disclosed that we may eventually have an anode-free sodium-metal ... that gives the new cell its main quality: being a "quasi-solid" battery. Taizhan explained that ...

While this has been done before, according to the University, this is the first time a solid-state sodium battery has successfully ... This approach enables higher cell voltage, lower cell cost ...