Corn Stalks in Space: NASA Next-Gen Battery Breakthrough Fueled by Multidisciplinary Collaboration at South Dakota Mines
April 05, 2023
April 05, 2023
RAPID CITY, South Dakota, April 5 (TNSfund) -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release:
South Dakota Mines has received a new $750,000 NASA EPSCoR grant to fund research into the next generation of lithium-sulfur batteries for use in space technology. The grant comes following a breakthrough on campus into a new polymer-biocarbon cathode coating made from corn stalk residues that stabilizes next-generation battery chemistry to nearly double . . .
South Dakota Mines has received a new $750,000 NASA EPSCoR grant to fund research into the next generation of lithium-sulfur batteries for use in space technology. The grant comes following a breakthrough on campus into a new polymer-biocarbon cathode coating made from corn stalk residues that stabilizes next-generation battery chemistry to nearly double . . .