Research find route to new type of batteries

Chinese researchers achieved a superionic conduction of negatively charged hydrogen atoms at ambient temperatures recently, which they say promises to pave the way to advanced clean energy storage and electrochemical conversion.

"Materials that exhibit superionic conduction at ambient conditions would provide huge opportunities for constructing new solid-state hydride batteries, fuel cells and electrochemical cells", said Chen Ping, a professor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.