Why The Search Is On For PFAS-Free Batteries

By Jamie Hailstone | Forbes | October 23, 2025

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“The demand for Lithium-ion batteries might be on the rise, but how many of us are aware they contain harmful PFAS compounds, otherwise known as ‘forever chemicals’?

The use of such compounds is obviously not good for the environment, and the search is now on for alternative compounds, which can be used in the next generation of batteries.

Dr. Jacqueline Edge, an associate professor at the University of Birmingham in the U.K., said inside a battery can be a ‘highly acidic, high temperature and high voltage environment’, which requires chemicals and materials that can withstand those conditions, in an interview.” …

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