By ESS news
A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Physics has published a paper in Nature energy demonstrating a potentially game-changing development in sodium ion battery electrolytes that could accelerate the commercial use of sodium ion technology.
The team, led by Prof. Hu Yongsheng, claimed the world’s first ‘zero thermal runaway’ in sodium-ion batteries at the ampere-hour level. The breakthrough is the development of a self-protective polymerizable, non-flammable electrolyte (PNE), which appears to have largely solved an important safety aspect of batteries.
The breakthrough focuses on a transition from passive fire retardancy to active thermal blocking of the PNE material, which as a system uses a three-in-one defense against what the researchers say eliminates fire and explosion risks.
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