The new design retains Edison's choice of metals while incorporating 21st-century nanotechnology and bioengineering. The UCLA-led study, published in Small, describes a battery capable of recharging in...
  • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    There was also a large Vanadium battery put into industrial use some years back. WA state somewhere if I recall, don’t remember the use for it.

    There are hundreds of known chemical combinations that produce electricity, and only a handful have received in depth research as to commercial usage I once read in Harper’s Magazine.

    • eleitl@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      Vanadium batteries are redox flow batteries, so basically fuel cells with a redox electrolite. This one has solid carbon foam electrodes with metal nanoclustrrs.