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Researchers have solved a key problem with sodium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and grid energy storage

Artistic rendering of the important discovery that lowering the heating rate during the fabrication of cathodes in sodium-ion batteries eliminates the problem of distortion and cracking in core-shell particles with concentration gradients. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory. Lithium-ion batteries have long dominated the market as the go-to power source for electric vehicles. Consideration is also underway to store renewable energy for…