{"id":154558,"date":"2026-07-14T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154558"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:00:07","slug":"the-young-chinese-scientist-behind-an-impossible-breakthrough-on-sodium-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154558","title":{"rendered":"The young Chinese scientist behind an \u2018impossible\u2019 breakthrough on sodium batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientist Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u2019 Institute of Physics, has spent a decade working to make sodium-ion batteries commercially viable.<br \/>\nThose years of work on energy storage in April earned Lu a China Youth May Fourth Medal \u2013 the nation\u2019s top honour for outstanding achievers under 35.<br \/>\nFor years, lithium-ion batteries have dominated the market, even though their raw materials are scarce and environmentally demanding to extract.<br \/>\nSodium-ion batteries are seen as an&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3360474\/young-chinese-scientist-behind-impossible-breakthrough-sodium-batteries?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientist Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u2019 Institute of Physics, has spent a decade working to make sodium-ion batteries commercially&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154558"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}