Ever-increasing global energy consumption has driven the development of renewable
energy technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. Battery energy …

Post-transition elements, together with zinc-group metals and their alloys belong to an
emerging class of materials with fascinating characteristics originating from their …

The design and performance of liquid metal batteries (LMBs), a new technology for grid-
scale energy storage, depend on fluid mechanics because the battery electrodes and …

The increasing demands for the penetration of renewable energy into the grid urgently call
for low-cost and large-scale energy storage technologies. With an intrinsic dendrite-free …

Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of deformable devices and epidermal
electronics that are in urgent request for flexible batteries. The intrinsically soft and ductile …

Liquid metal batteries (LMBs) are discussed today as a cheap grid scale energy storage, as
required for the deployment of fluctuating renewable energies. Built as stable density …

Abstract Liquid Metal Batteries (LMBs) have a potential to emerge as a cost-effective
solution for grid-scale energy storage to overcome the intermittency of renewable energy …

Generation of thermal convection flow in the liquid metal battery, a device recently proposed
as a promising solution for the problem of the short-term energy storage, is analyzed using a …

Liquid metal batteries are proposed for low-cost grid scale energy storage. During their
operation, solid intermetallic phases often form in the cathode and are known to limit the …

Solutal buoyancy has a large impact on the flow of the alloy phase composing the positive
electrode in liquid metal batteries. During discharge solutal buoyancy creates a stabilizing …