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Charging sustainable batteries

Nature Sustainability volume 5, pages 176–178 (2022) Cite this article

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Having transformed our way of life, rechargeable batteries are poised for exponential growth over the coming decade, notably due to the wider adoption of electric vehicles. An international expert panel proposes a combination of vision, innovation and practice for feasible pathways toward sustainable batteries.

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  1. Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

    Christian Bauer

  2. Institute of Physical Chemistry and Center for Materials Research, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

    Simon Burkhardt & Jürgen Janek

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Neil P. Dasgupta

  4. Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo, Norway

    Linda Ager-Wick Ellingsen

  5. Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA

    Linda L. Gaines

  6. State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Han Hao

  7. Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Roland Hischier

  8. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Liangbing Hu

  9. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

    Yunhui Huang & Wei Luo

  10. College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Chengdu Liang

  11. Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Hong Li

  12. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Ju Li

  13. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Ju Li, Elsa A. Olivetti & Jennifer L. M. Rupp

  14. Advanced Power, Belmont, NC, USA

    Yangxing Li

  15. Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Electrochemical Energy and Interfaces Laboratory, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Yi-Chun Lu

  16. Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Linda F. Nazar

  17. Department of Economics, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Jens F. Peters

  18. Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

    Jennifer L. M. Rupp

  19. Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Marcel Weil

  20. Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jay F. Whitacre

  21. Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Shengming Xu

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Bauer, C., Burkhardt, S., Dasgupta, N.P. et al. Charging sustainable batteries. Nat Sustain 5, 176–178 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00864-1

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