All-solid-state batteries promise safer, more powerful energy storage for electric vehicles, electronics, and the grid. But lithium, the critical element inside, is costly, scarce, and damaging to ...

A dot and cross diagram for sodium chloride suggests that it is made up of pairs of sodium and chloride ions. It is not. A 3D construction model shows how the ions are arranged in a lattice structure.

The lab-created compounds — never seen before — might exist naturally on icy moons in the outer solar system. By Kenneth Chang Scientists have discovered two new forms of salty ice that probably do ...