Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a battery which could be made partly from carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from power plants.
The new battery, which is far from commercial deployment, could continuously convert CO2 into a solid mineral carbonate as it discharges.
If the new battery is successfully developed, it will open up new ways for tailoring electrochemical CO2 conversion reactions, which may ultimately help reduce the greenhouse gas emissions.
The MIT battery is made from lithium metal, carbon, and an electrolyte that the researchers designed and the findings were published in the journal Joule, in a paper by assistant professor of mechanical engineering Betar Gallant, doctoral student Aliza Khurram, and postdoc Mingfu He.
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