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The web page “How an accidental discovery made this year could change the world” from BIGTHINK (Lockett, 2022) introduces the possibility of replacing our current choice of lithium-ion batteries with lithium-sulfur batteries due to their advantages. According to Lockett (2022) lithium-ion batteries have lifecycle problems from repeated charging, and battery degradation, which means a higher cost is required for battery replacement, and when mined, the materials are extremely harmful to the environment discharging toxic chemicals. Lithium-sulfur batteries are an improvement on the above issues but have only half the charging cycle of lithium-ion batteries (Lockett, 2022). However, Drexel scientists’ recent discovery of monoclinic gamma-phase sulfur, although not fully understood to be put into practical use, prevents battery degradation in lithium-sulfur batteries altogether (Lockett, 2022). Compared to lithium-ion batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries last two times longer, have three ti...

The web page “How an accidental discovery made this year could change the world” from BIGTHINK (Lockett, 2022) introduces the possibility of replacing our current choice of lithium-ion batteries with lithium-sulfur batteries due to their advantages. According to Lockett (2022) lithium-ion batteries have lifecycle problems from repeated charging, and battery degradation, which means a higher cost is required for battery replacement, and when mined, the materials are extremely harmful to the environment discharging toxic chemicals. Lithium-sulfur batteries are an improvement on the above issues but have only half the charging cycle of lithium-ion batteries (Lockett, 2022). However, Drexel scientists’ recent discovery of monoclinic gamma-phase sulfur, although not fully understood to be put into practical use, prevents battery degradation in lithium-sulfur batteries altogether (Lockett, 2022). Compared to lithium-ion batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries last two times longer, have three ti...

The web page “How an accidental discovery made this year could change the world” from BIGTHINK (Lockett, 2022) introduces the possibility of replacing our current choice of lithium-ion batteries with lithium-sulfur batteries due to their advantages. According to (Lockett, 2022) lithium-ion batteries have lifecycle problems from repeated charging, and battery degradation, which means a higher cost is required for battery replacement, and when mined, the materials are extremely harmful to the environment discharging toxic chemicals. Lithium-sulfur batteries are an improvement on the above issues but have only half the charging cycle of lithium-ion batteries (Lockett, 2022). However, Drexel scientists’ recent discovery of monoclinic gamma-phase sulfur, although not fully understood to be put into practical use, prevents battery degradation in lithium-sulfur batteries altogether (Lockett, 2022). Compared to lithium-ion batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries last two times longer, have three ...

The web page “How an accidental discovery made this year could change the world” from BIGTHINK (Lockett, 2022) introduces the possibility of replacing our current choice of lithium-ion batteries with lithium-sulfur batteries due to their advantages. According to (Lockett, 2022) lithium-ion batteries have lifecycle problems from repeated charging, and battery degradation, which means a higher cost is required for battery replacement, and when mined, the materials are extremely harmful to the environment discharging toxic chemicals. Lithium-sulfur batteries are an improvement on the above issues but have only half the charging cycle of lithium-ion batteries (Lockett, 2022). However, Drexel scientists’ recent discovery of monoclinic gamma-phase sulfur, although not fully understood to be put into practical use, prevents battery degradation in lithium-sulfur batteries altogether (Lockett, 2022). Compared to lithium-ion batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries last two times longer, have three ...