During World War II a scientist named Georg Otto Erb developed the molten salt battery for use in military applications. The war ended before Erb’s batteries found any real use, but British ...

The scientists described the battery in “ A freeze-thaw molten salt battery for seasonal storage,” which was recently published in Cell Reports Physical Science. This content is protected by ...

But people work and play in oceans and estuaries, and they could benefit from flexible and saltwater-safe power sources. Now, researchers report in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces a yarn-like ...