| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
MS&T23: Materials Science & Technology
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| Symposium
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Glasses and Optical Materials: Current Issues and Functional Applications
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| Presentation Title |
Progress Towards New Sodium Glassy Solid Electrolytes |
| Author(s) |
Steve Warthen Martin, Madison Olson, Alec Wakefield, Nicholas J. Oldham, Noah Riley, Mary Okkema, Christopher Martin |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Steve Warthen Martin |
| Abstract Scope |
While Lithium batteries are currently the most popular battery for grid scale energy storage, the rapidly increasing demands for Lithium to electrify transportation will soon outpace available geological reserves. For this reason, sodium batteries, with their comparable volumetric energy storage density, yet orders of magnitude lower cost, have been of interest for more than 50 years. The lack of a high conductivity, low cost, and electrochemically stable solid electrolyte has been a central reason for the current lack of a commercially available Na battery. In this talk, I will describe our more recent progress in developing new chemistries of Na-based glassy solid electrolytes that can be formed as thin films and in characterizing the many thermal, chemical, electrochemical, and mechanical properties needed of them. |