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Battery breakthrough - in zinc

RESEARCHERS from the University of Sydney have overcome one of the barriers preventing zinc-air batteries from overtaking conventional lithium-ion batteries as the battery of choice, a move that could bring a swift end to the lithium mining boom.

Haydn Black
Battery breakthrough - in zinc

Zinc is the 24th most abundant element in Earth's crust, and if the batteries develop as researchers expect they could become not only much cheaper to produce than lithium-ion batteries, but they would...

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