Smartphones, laptops, electric cars -- whatever the device, an efficient battery is high on any user's wish list. The search for the next-generation battery has recently focused on sodium- oxygen ...

image: Chemists at the University of Waterloo have discovered the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries that could pave the way for development of the so-called holy grail of ...

Figure 1: Comparison of the electrochemistry, XRD patterns and morphology of NaO 2 formed by discharge in pure and water-added NaOTf salt electrolyte. Figure 3: Schematic illustration of the mechanism ...

Salty Batteries - Sodium-oxygen batteries have improved cycle life due to highly concentrated electrolytes. (© Wiley-VCH) Researchers have high hopes for alkali metal/oxygen batteries, because their ...

In the aquatic environment, microbes, light and reduced compounds produce superoxide. Superoxide is a reactive oxygen species but relatively unreactive against organic compounds in water despite the ...

Chemists at the University of Waterloo have discovered the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries that could pave the way for development of the so-called holy grail of electrochemical ...