Sodium
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
2 statements about Sodium, every show
House: Sodium is fundamentally far inferior to lithium as an anode material
“The drop from the best anode material is lithium by a long shot, for the reasons I just described, really fundamental physics The second best anode material is sodium. And it is way less good. Way less good. And it's easy to understand why. Because the molar m…”
Chen: John Goodenough is developing sodium glass batteries to replace cobalt
“Professor John Goodenough at UT Austin is hard at work on a new type of chemistry that would use a glass electrolyte made out of sodium, which is much more abundant than cobalt, and it's just so awesome to me that at age 95, having pioneered the first big leap…”