Zinc batteries are one part of the future of energy storage, and a recent study gave us a huge gain in our understanding of how they should be charged, and how they should be manufactured to make their lives vastly longer.

So what did the study show, what does this mean for energy storage, and can Kate make a battery from a lemon? Let's find out.

⏱️ Chapter Breakdown:

00:00 – Introduction 01:34 – Renewables are making up more of the grid 04:44 – Second-use EV batteries and battery storage 06:12 – Types of zinc battery 07:00 – Zinc intercalation batteries 07:32 – Zinc aqueous batteries 10:12 – Challenges for zinc batteries 12:41 – Dendrites 13:33 – How did Ma et al. examine the battery 14:00 – Findings 17:23 – How does this damage happen? 17:56 - The TLDR; 19:37 – Thanks for Watching!

🔗 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/smtd.202300660 - Coulombic Efficiency for Practical Zinc Metal Batteries: Critical Analysis and Perspectives 🔗 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378775324009923 - Ultrathin Zn(002) textured zinc anodes for dendrite-free and hydrogen evolution-inhibited zinc batteries 🔗 https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/en/documents/publications/studies/EN2021_Fraunhofer-ISE_LCOE_Renewable_Energy_Technologies.pdf – Levelized cost of energy 🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61813-y - Understanding rate-dependent textured growth in zinc electrodeposition via high-throughput in situ x-ray diffraction

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