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New MIT metal-mesh membrane could solve longstanding problems with liquid metal displacement batteries; inexpensive grid power storage

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But instead of acting as a membrane, as expected, the compound material was acting as an electrode, actively taking part in the battery’s electrochemical reaction. Sadoway (2018). They opened the cell and found droplets inside the test chamber, which would have to have been droplets of molten lead, he said.

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This Startup Builds USVs That Collect Data About Oceans

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Canada, in 2018. Today, Open Ocean has more than two dozen full-time employees, plus contractors and part-time staff, bringing the total to just over 30. She has a bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology from McMaster University , in Hamilton, Ont., The company began in the Anguses’ garage on Vancouver Island, B.C.,