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February 1, 2013

A Battery-Driven World Could Electrify the Economy

The Economist, The Economist


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Kris Pupek, an industrial chemist at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, near Chicago, waves a tube of white powder in the air emphatically. A mere pinch of the contents is sufficient for his analytical colleagues to work out if it has the potential to be the next whizzy material in battery research. . .

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