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A compound that tames sodium batteries’ hazardous habits

A new charge-carrying material produces a high-performance battery that won’t explode or catch fire.
Employees connect a lithium-ion battery pack to an electric motor on a car assembly line

Workers hook up an electric car’s lithium battery pack. A fluorine-laden electrolyte could help to improve batteries that contain sodium instead of lithium. Credit: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg/Getty

The safety and stability of sodium-based batteries can be improved by replacing a liquid component with a new class of solid material1.

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Nature 607, 215 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01848-z

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  1. Wang, X. et al. Nature Mater. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01296-0 (2022).

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