Aqueous Lithium batteries in our future

I know that you must be asking yourself what an aqueous lithium ion battery even is. Well that answer is rather simple to give-- an aqueous lithium ion battery is one that contains an aqueous, or liquid electrolyte instead of the current 'dry cells'. Dr. Fabio La Mantia has received a nearly 1.5 million Euro grant from the German government. And he works at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum which was the actual recipient of such grant. Here are two articles you can read on it if you would like to Link #1 Link #2. And by the way this project is suppose to start in March, and is scheduled to last five years.