That’s a critical milestone, says Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, senior author of the study and Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT. “The threshold that you really need for realistic electric ...

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, or ships.

“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 ...

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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.

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, ...

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 ...