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What if you could recharge a battery 250,000 times? South Carolina chemist works to lengthen battery life.
Batteries are becoming an important part of the world’s energy system, but their ability to recharge may be too limited. Morgan Stefik, a chemistry professor in the University of South Carolina College of Arts and Sciences, says typical batteries recharge only a few hundred times, or a few thousand at most. That means more batteries must be made through recycling or new manufacturing.