Japanese electronics company Elecom has recently unveiled the world’s first sodium-ion (Na+) power bank with a 9,000mAh capacity, supporting USB Power Delivery (PD) and offering up to 45W output via ...

Sodium is abundantly available in sea salt, as well as in the crust of the earth. Now, back to that power bank. Elecom's portable puck costs 9,980 JPY (US$67) in Japan, and is available in limited ...

Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, 4-101 minami, Koyama-cho, Tottori 680-8552, Japan Center for Research on Green Sustainable Chemistry, ...

And it looks like battery innovation isn’t stopping soon. A Japanese brand, Elecom claims to have achieved a breakthrough in Sodium-ion batteries with a new powerbank powered by this tech. The Elecom ...

Elecom’s Na Plus power bank doesn’t use lithium and can be recharged nearly 5,000 times. Elecom’s Na Plus power bank doesn’t use lithium and can be recharged nearly 5,000 times.

Unlike traditional lithium-ion batteries, which depend on scarce metals like lithium and cobalt, sodium-ion batteries use sodium, an element that’s way easier to source. That means less ...

The owners of a container ship which crashed into another vessel in the North Sea on Monday have denied reports it had hazardous sodium cyanide on board. US tanker Stena Immaculate was anchored ...

The Immaculate was set ablaze while moored at Grimsby Port. The tanker was transporting volatile substances including sodium cyanide, a highly toxic material that, alarmingly, interferes with the ...

It remains unclear whether there has been any leak of the chemical. "Sodium Cyanide is used widely in metal processing and, whilst quite corrosive and toxic, it only becomes a serious problem when ...

However, it’s now been confirmed that there is no sodium cyanide on board. "There are four empty containers that have previously contained the hazardous chemical and these containers will ...

Department of Drug Chemistry and Technologies, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, Rome 00185, Italy ...