Lithium extraction pollutes groundwater, reduces water levels and endangers birds like flamingos. In this image flamingos are standing in a lake on the Atacama salt plane (Chili) | Image Wikimedia

🔋#4 A battery’s life: from raw material extraction to end-of-life disposal.🚮

Researchers @rug.nl Xin Sun and Xiaohua Li study this cycle, and investigate how recycling can be made more effective and greener.♻️

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PhD students Yongsheng Zhang (left) and Harshan Madeshwaran work on safer batteries in the research group of Giuseppe Portale. | Image Portale Group, University of Groningen

🔋#3 There is a small chance that rechargeable #lithium batteries will ignite, leak or explode. How to make them safer?

🪙 Giuseppe Portale's team @rug.nl is building small coin batteries using solid #polymers.

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Vanadium flow batteries next to a solar park in China. The batteries can store excess solar energy. | Image Xinjiang local government, WeChat

🔋#2 For the stability of our #powergrid, large-scale energy storage is needed.⚡

Edwin Otten, Prof. @rug.nl, works on a #flowbattery which stores electric power in large containers of fluid. 💦

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Duurzame batterijen als krachtbron voor de energietransitie Het Nationaal Groeifonds stimuleert het Nederlandse ‘ecosysteem’ voor batterijen met een programma van maar liefst 800 miljoen euro, met als doel een...

#1 How can we create sustainable batteries to power the #energytransition? ♻️

Moniek Tromp Prof. @rug.nl designs and builds the batteries of the future.🔋

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Batteries play a major role in the energy transition. How sustainably they are produced, the materials used, and how easily they are recycled have a significant impact on the environment. | Image Roberto Sorin / Unsplash

🔋How do batteries work, and can they be improved?

Scientists @rug.nl develop batteries that are ✅efficient
✅cheap ✅eco-friendly and they study how to recycle old ones.♻️

Meet the #batterydevelopers of #FSE in our new 5-part series. 👇
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