Prior to this development, less than 10% of the melting temperatures of the 200,000-plus inorganic compounds that have been identified on earth were known.
In a paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers explain that the new battery architecture uses aluminum and sulphur as its two electrode materials.
The facility will make Rio the first primary aluminium producer in North America to incorporate recycled post-consumer aluminium into aluminium alloys.
Speira, which was part of Norsk Hydro’s aluminum business before being sold to KPS Capital, can produce about 160,000 tonnes of aluminum at its plant in Neuss.