<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have repurposed solar panel glass waste for use in solid-state lithium metal batteries.</li><li>The glass waste was milled into nano-sized particles and used as a functional filler in solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) material, resulting in improved battery performance.</li><li>Batteries with the glass nanoparticles showed an 8.3% improvement in capacity over the reference device after 80 charge cycles.</li><li>The research aims to make the recycling of end-of-life solar panels more sustainable by upcycling waste materials into high-value products for energy storage applications.</li></ul>

Upcycling solar glass waste to use in solid-state lithium batteries

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