Q&A: Advancements in Battery Technology Beyond Lithium-ion
Professor of Materials Chemistry
Professor Saiful Islam addresses audience queries on the future of energy storage, discussing next-generation battery materials and their potential applications.
What will the batteries of the future look like? In this exclusive Q&A, materials chemist Prof Saiful Islam answers audience questions following his Royal Institution lecture on the materials driving the energy transition.
Saiful explores whether batteries could ever make a major contribution to commercial aviation, why lithium-ion batteries degrade, and whether new materials and solid-state batteries could offer longer lifetimes. He also discusses flow batteries for large-scale grid storage, why we don't yet have solar-powered passenger planes, and where the world's battery research and innovation is happening.