Palm-Sized Prototype of a Water-Based Battery to Store Alternative Energy (IMAGE)

Stanford University

Palm-Sized Prototype of a Water-Based Battery to Store Alternative Energy

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Postdoctoral scholar Wei Chen holds a prototype of what could one day be a ginormous battery designed to store solar and wind energy thanks to a water-based chemical reaction developed in the lab of Stanford materials scientist Yi Cui.

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(Photo by Jinwei Xu)

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