Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Sustainability-inspired cell design for a fully recyclable sodium ion battery

  • Tiefeng Liu,
  • Yaping Zhang,
  • Chao Chen,
  • Zhan Lin,
  • Shanqing Zhang,
  • Jun Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09933-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Effective recycling technologies represent a solution to the sustainability and environmental consequences of spent rechargeable batteries. Here, the authors show a bipolar electrode design that allows not only good electrochemical performance but a closed loop of material use for sodium ion batteries.