Scientists Have Found A Wild New Way to Make Batteries Last Longer and Less Dependent on Lithium

02 May 2023 | Abstracted from The Cool Down

"Dutch professor Marnix Wagemaker may have the recipe for a better battery - and it includes five kinds of salt...The sodium cocktail solution inside his prototype has, in limited testing, doubled the lifespan of certain lithium-ion batteries...Since sodium is readily available in seawater, it’s a sustainable way to alleviate the heavily-used metal reserves.

"Adding a diverse group of salts to an already hectic environment of ions and charges results in more chaos - and, ironically - a more stable surface in the battery. The end result is longer battery life."

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