new sodium-aluminum battery design (IMAGE)
Caption
The new sodium-aluminum battery design allows only sodium (depicted as yellow balls) to move through the solid-state electrolyte to charge the battery. Being constructed of inexpensive Earth-abundant materials such as sodium salts and aluminum wool, a scrap product of aluminum manufacturing, is an advantage.
Credit
(Diagram by Sara Levine | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
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Public Domain