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Chinese scientist seeks to make sodium-ion batteries commercially viable

South China Morning Post highlights the work of Scientist Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Physics, who has spent a decade working on sodium-ion batteries with the goal of making them commercially viable.

The outlet frames the effort as an attempt to turn a long-promised advance in sodium-ion technology into practical, large-scale battery use.

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