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A graph by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence showing a battery with a list of materials going used to make its various components, including sodium, manganese, vanadium, iron and aluminium in the cathode of a sodium-ion battery compared with lithium, cobalt, iron phsphate, nickel, manganese and aluminium in the cathode material of a lithium-ion battery. The anode is made from hard and soft carbon and aluminium in the sodium-ion battery and from natural and synthetic graohite, silicon and copper for a lithium-ion battery. The sodium-ion battery uses NaPF6 and propylene carbonate in its electrolyte, while the lithium-ion battery uses lipF6 and carbonate-based solvents.

Crucible The Crucible: December 2024

The Sodium ion Batteries: A Complementary Technology to Lithium ion Batteries

by Polina Sparks December 18, 2024

Since the mass market adoption of lithium ion batteries in the early 1990s, cell prices have fallen year on year, resulting in a reduction of 73% since 2014 alone. This…