“The proton battery is one among many potential contributors towards meeting this enormous demand for energy storage. Powering batteries with protons has the potential to be more economical than using lithium ions, which are made from scare resources. Carbon, which is the primary resource used in our proton battery, is abundant and cheap compared to both metal hydrogen storage alloys and the lithium needed for rechargeable lithium ion batteries.”
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Figure 2: Professor John Andrews (center) with Dr Shahin Heidari (left) and PhD researcher Saeed Seif Mohammadi. Photograph: RMIT
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