MIT's solid-state battery electrode materials breakthrough

MIT engineers have developed electrodes to avoid the stresses that cause component fracturing in solid-state batteries.
Solid-state batteries need a mechanism that allows for expansion and contraction during charge/discharge cycles, without changing the electrode's outer dimensions.
A new electrode concept from the laboratory of Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering could meet that need.