China turns liquor waste into high-performance starting material for anode for sodium-ion batteries with 91,9% retention after 100 cycles – Interesting Engineering

Sodium-ion batteries are safer and cheaper than lithium-ion batteries but need to improve their performance to be commercially deployed. Researchers at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) have turned the by-product of the popular Chinese liquor baijiu into a high-performance starting material for anode for sodium-ion batteries, the next-generation energy storage solution. The team has been granted patents for their approach and is now looking to scale up the technology, a media report said.