In the dreams of battery makers, someone gets sodium-ion chemistry to work properly, and lithium is gets replaced with a cheaper more capacious metal. In the real world, sodium ions destroy the surrounding battery structure as they move in and out during use, catastrophically reducing cycle life compared with lithium-ion cells. Using a supercomputer to ...

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