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Spain’s Instituto Tecnológico de la Energía (ITE) has built a prototype sodium-ion battery cell using high-potential materials and a sustainable polymer-based separator, as part of the SOSBAT project ...

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Sodium is more abundant on Earth than lithium, and batteries that use the material could be cheaper in the future. Building a ...