Instead, sodium-ion batteries rely on “hard carbon,” a porous form of carbon that can hold sodium but also makes unwanted ...

Japanese researchers used supercomputer simulations to reveal how sodium ions form clusters and move within hard carbon ...

(A) Schematic of CA definitions: θ (surface parallel), θa (advancing), and θr (receding) on a 90° inclined plane. CAs provide insights into hydrophilicity and wettability. (B) Sensor materials: CNTF ...

A new study advances fundamental knowledge about the role of solvation in ion binding and presents a new pathway for electrochemically controlling ion selectivity. A new study by researchers at the ...

For ion transport at nanoscale confinements, a cost of energy is discovered that originates from the rearrangement of the counter-ion shell, with the magnitude of which depending on the type of ...

The study, published in Materials Today, details how these membranes could significantly improve energy efficiency and operational stability. Precisely engineered in both pore size and surface ...

Researchers and scientists began work on sodium-ion battery development as early as the late 1970s to the early 1980s, and continued to progress throughout the eighties. However, lithium-ion batteries ...

An E10X sodium-ion-powered microcar in yellow. E10X, a microcar made by the Chinese firm JAC Yiwei, a joint venture between JAC and Volkswagen, is one of the first mass-produced vehicles to be powered ...

On a special episode (first released on July 14, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Many of today’s gadgets are powered by lithium-ion batteries, but that could be changing. Shirley Meng, a University of ...