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Fully Charged in Just 12 Minutes! Korean Scientists Develop Next-Gen Lithium–Sulfur Battery
(scitechdaily.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
As far as I can tell battery research seems to consist of mixing every single element with lithium, and seeing if it makes a battery.
Change lithium with Group IV elements and that's also how semiconductors are made: playing around with different impurities.