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Ultimately, a sodium-air fuel cell could power a regional jet carrying 50 to 100 passengers on flights as long as 300 miles, according to professor Yet-Ming Chiang.

The sodium-air fuel cell – designed by a team led by Yet-Ming Chiang, professor of materials science and engineering at MIT – works by combining liquid sodium metal with oxygen drawn from the ...

Yet-Ming Chiang and colleagues at MIT, the current prototype device consists of two chambers linked by a solid ceramic electrolyte material. The fuel, namely liquid sodium metal, ...

Reference: “Sodium-air fuel cell for high energy density and low-cost electric power” by Karen Sugano, Sunil Mair, Saahir Ganti-Agrawal, Alden S. Friesen, Kailash Raman, William H. Woodford, Shashank ...

“We expect people to think that this is a totally crazy idea,” says co-author Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics. “If they didn’t, I’d be a bit disappointed because if people don’t ...

Karen Sugano, Sunil Mair, Saahir Ganti-Agrawal, Alden S. Friesen, Kailash Raman, William H. Woodford, Shashank Sripad, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Yet-Ming Chiang. Sodium-air fuel cell for ...

A new type of fuel cell that runs on sodium metal could one day help clean up sectors where it’s difficult to replace fossil fuels, like rail, regional aviation, and short-distance shipping.

New fuel cell could enable electric aviation These devices could pack three times as much energy per pound as today’s best EV batteries, offering a lightweight option for powering trucks, planes ...

Their findings are being published in the journal Joule ("Sodium-air fuel cell for high energy density and low-cost electric power"), in a paper by MIT doctoral students Karen Sugano, Sunil Mair, and ...

Their findings are published in the journal Joule, in a paper by MIT doctoral students Karen Sugano, Sunil Mair, and Saahir Ganti-Agrawal; professor of materials science and engineering Yet-Ming ...