Aluminum has low cost, low flammability and high charge storage capacity, so it has always been an attractive material for batteries. In the past decades, researchers have been committed to developing commercially feasible aluminum ion batteries, but they have always failed. Rechargeable aluminum battery has always been in the concept stage. One of the important challenges is to find a material that can still generate enough voltage after repeated charging and discharging.

Lu Bing 'an, an associate professor at the School of Physics of Hunan University, is expected to solve these problems and bring a revolution to the battery industry.