A cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries

Christoph Vaalma; Daniel Buchholz; Marcel Weil; Stefano Passerini

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A cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries

Christoph Vaalma Daniel Buchholz Marcel Weil

Stefano Passerini

Nature Reviews Materials Vol. 3 No. 4 · Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Christoph Vaalma, Daniel Buchholz, Marcel Weil, et al. (2018). A cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. Nature Reviews Materials, 3(4). https://doi.org/10.1038/natrevmats.2018.13

A cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries

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