As battery-recycling technologies mature, they promise to create a “circular supply chain” that lowers product costs and environmental impact while reducing dependence on strategically sensitive minerals.
Solid-state batteries promise higher power densities and longer lives than today's lithium cells, but will advances in the structures used by conventional "wet" batteries deliver near-equivalent performance years before they reach the market?
In contrast to recycling conventional batteries, the polypeptide electrodes in this truly organic battery can be triggered to decompose down to amino acids.
