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Contour Energy Systems Licenses MIT Carbon Nanotube Technology for Li-ion Battery Electrodes

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has acquired a carbon nanotube technology that can significantly improve the power capability of lithium-ion batteries, through an exclusive technology licensing agreement with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). —MIT Professor Yang Shao-Horn. Paula Hammond, Bayer Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT.

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Pellion Technologies leveraging high throughput computational materials design to make progress on Mg-ion rechargeable batteries

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Persson is also a co-founder of Pellion Technologies—an MIT spin-off co-founded by Dr. Gerbrand Ceder, funded by Vinod Khosla, and recipient of an ARPA-E grant ( earlier post ) that is developing a magnesium-ion (Mg-ion) rechargeable battery. Chemistry of Materials 2010 22 (3), 860-868 doi: 10.1021/cm9016497.

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Motorola Solutions invests in Mg-ion battery company Pellion Technologies

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Based in Cambridge, MA, Pellion was founded by a team of MIT researchers. In 2010, ARPA-E awarded the startup $3,204,080 to support the development of Mg-ion batteries for EVs. US Patent Nº 8,951,680 : “Rechargeable magnesium ion cell components and assembly ” (Assignee: Pellion, published 10 Feb 2015).

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New Lithium rechargeable semi-solid flow cell offers energy densities an order of magnitude greater than previous flow batteries; possible applications in transportation and grid-scale storage

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Yet-Ming Chiang (co-founder of A123 Systems), report on their development of a new energy storage concept—a semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) combining the high energy density of rechargeable batteries with the flexible and scalable architecture of fuel cells and flow batteries—in a paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

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Goodenough was awarded the 2012 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies for discoveries that “paved the way for development of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery technology.” in 1952 in solid-state physics, he joined MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory , in Lexington, Mass., His ability to cross disciplines started at MIT. “At

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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company, which was founded in 2010 by three Stanford grads, is producing a machine that generates 230 to 430 kilowatts using almost any kind of fuel, including ammonia, hydrogen, biogas, or natural gas. EnerVenue If you don’t discharge and then recharge them all the way, lithium-ion batteries can last for thousands of charge-discharge cycles.

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24M emerges from stealth mode with new semi-solid Li-ion cell; <$100/kWh by 2020

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The semisolid thick electrode is a material science innovation originating in Dr. Chiang’s lab at MIT. —“Semi-Solid Lithium Rechargeable Flow Battery”. Craig Carter, and Yet-Ming Chiang (2011) “Semi-Solid Lithium Rechargeable Flow Battery” Advanced Energy Materials doi: 10.1002/aenm.201100152. Click to enlarge. Brunini, W.

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