The process of manufacturing the water batteries indicate that mass production is feasible, given that materials such as magnesium and zinc are abundant in nature. To continue reading, please ...

Now, the Waterloo team is one step closer to bringing magnesium batteries to reality, which could be more cost-friendly and sustainable than the lithium-ion versions currently available.

"Before our work," says Detsi, "the cycle life of state-of-the-art magnesium-ion battery anodes was only 200 cycles." In other words, the addition of the self-healing anode quintupled the initial ...