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Aluminium offers a promising alternative to lithium for the batteries of the future…in theory! The trouble is it’s been very difficult to make a rechargeable version work reliably in the real world. Now a group of researchers in China reckon they’ve cracked it. But is it just another bit of ‘hopium’?
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Reference Links
Beijing Institute research paper
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.4c01615
Beijing Institute press release
https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2025/january/new-design-makes-aluminum-batteries-last-longer.html
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