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Batteries of the future made with salt - Science Nation

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:02:47
Publish Date: 2018-11-30 00:00:36
Description: Running out of "juice," finding a place to charge up, borrowing a charger, waiting for the charge – it's a familiar ritual for cell phone owners, but materials scientist Shirley Meng of the University of California, San Diego wants us to raise our expectations for the future. She envisions cheaper, faster, more powerful batteries, but these batteries would be made with sodium, not lithium.
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