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Umicore introducing new generation Li-ion battery recycling technologies; partnering with ACC

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Umicore, a global materials technology group, is a pioneer in the recycling of rechargeable batteries; its battery recycling plant in Hoboken, Belgium, has an annual capacity of 7,000 tons of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and battery production scrap, the equivalent of 35,000 electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

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Tokyo Tech team develops low-cost germanium-free solid electrolyte for Li-ion batteries

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Sulfide-based lithium-ion conductors have the advantages of high conductivities together with suitable electrochemical windows and mechanical properties; thus, they are intensively studied as promising SEs. The all-solid-state battery, LiCoO 2 /LGPS/In−Li, showed excellent charge−discharge characteristics using the LGPS electrolyte.

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Pike Research forecasts automotive Li-ion battery prices to drop by more than 1/3 by 2017

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According to a recent report examining batteries for electric vehicles from Pike Research, as manufacturing efficiencies improve and access to lithium expands, the installed cost of Li-ion batteries will fall by more than one-third by the end of 2017. billion annually in 2011 to more than $14.6 —John Gartner. (In

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New high-power Si–graphene composite electrode for Li-ion batteries

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researchers report on a new high-power Si–graphene composite anode material for Li-ion batteries in the journal Advanced Energy Materials. This allowed for a greater number of lithium ions in the electrode while utilizing the flexibility of graphene sheets to accommodate the volume changes of silicon during use. Hayner, C.

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A*STAR, IREQ silicate nanoboxes as high-performance cathodes for Li-ion batteries

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Researchers from Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR and Québec’s IREQ (Hydro-Québec’s research institute) have synthesized silicate-based nanoboxes that could more than double the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries as compared to conventional phosphate-based cathodes. Trudeau, Jackie Y.

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Report: Bosch buying solid-state Li-ion battery company Seeo

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Quartz today reported that Bosch has agreed to acquire Berkeley Lab solid-state Li-ion battery spinoff Seeo. Lithium metal is an ideal anode material for rechargeable Li batteries. This can also be problematic, as the core requirements of a solid-state electrolyte for use with a Li metal anode—i.e., Earlier post.).

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KIT researchers develop fluoride-ion batteries; potential for much higher energy densities than conventional Li-ion batteries

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Setup of the fluoride-ion battery: A fluoride-containing electrolyte separates the metal anode from the metal fluoride cathode. Metal fluorides may be applied as conversion materials in lithium-ion batteries. Instead of the lithium cation (as in Li-ion batteries), the fluoride anion takes over charge transfer. Resources.

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