Water-based electrolytes promise safer phone batteries

The key was a high concentration of salt that produces the same protective layer on electrodes (a solid electrolyte interphase) you’d get out of a conventional electrolyte, preserving the electrodes and letting the battery hold more energy. There’s one main problem right now: batteries with these watery electrolytes don’t last very long. They hold out …

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