China Built a Battery Out of Iron That Could Last 16 Years, and Iron Costs 80 Times Less Than Lithium

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Researchers at the Institute of Metal Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a redesigned electrolyte for an alkaline all-iron flow battery that ran for more than 6,000 charge-discharge cycles with no measurable capacity loss, roughly 16 years of daily use. The 2026 Advanced Energy Materials paper points to grid-scale stationary storage, with […]