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Building a better battery

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How researchers are improving energy storage devices for power generated from renewable sources like solar and wind.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 3
          March 2019
          109 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/3314328
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