New tests show sodium batteries keep over 80-90% capacity after many cycles, offering a cheaper, abundant alternative to lithium.

Lithium has been the go-to metal for battery production for more than 30 years, powering appliances from phones to cars. Now, sodium is giving it a run for its money as a less expensive and more ...

A new technique stabilizes a metastable form of sodium solid electrolyte, enabling all-solid-state sodium batteries to ...

Fuel cells that react liquid sodium metal with air could be the power source required to give electric airplanes much longer ranges, a new paper has proposed. The idea has yet to leave the laboratory ...

The Universitat Jaume I of Castelló launched in September a leading project on advanced solid electrolytes for lithium and ...

From solar panels to next-generation medical devices, many emerging technologies rely on materials that can manipulate light ...

From solar panels to advanced medical devices, many modern technologies depend on special materials that can control light ...

A new process being pioneered by energy companies such as Israel-based Helios and Netherlands-based Alkalium proposes the use of sodium metal rather than coal or hydrogen to refine iron-ore into ...

Every time you tap your phone, stream a video or snap a sunrise over Diamond Head, you’re borrowing a small miracle: the ...

China’s breakthrough sodium-ion battery — priced at $10/kWh (Bloomberg NEF, 2025) — is a technical marvel. It’s a direct challenge to America’s lithium-dependent auto industry. For context, today’s ...

The science pros at The King of Random reveal how a sodium metal knife experiment went wrong.