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Lithium batteries have taken over as the primary battery chemistry from applications ranging from consumer electronics to ...

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Lithium may be the key component in most modern batteries, but it doesn’t make up the bulk of the material used in them. Instead, much of the material is in the electrodes, where the lithium gets ...