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Sumitomo considering marketing new lower-temperature molten-salt electrolyte battery to automakers for EVs and hybrids

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Construction of the molten-salt electrolyte battery. is considering targeting its lower-temperature molten-salt electrolyte battery, being developed in partnership with Kyoto University ( earlier post ), to makers of electric and hybrid passenger cars, according to Bloomberg. Source: Sumitomo. Click to enlarge.

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Report: Sumitomo and Kyoto University developing lower temperature molten-salt battery; about 10% the cost of Li-ion

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in partnership with Kyoto University, has developed a lower temperature molten-salt rechargeable battery that promises to cost only about 10% as much as lithium ion batteries. Molten-salt batteries use highly conductive molten salts as an electrolyte, and can offer high energy and power densities.

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Silicon nanoparticles show high capacity and cycling stability as Li-ion anode

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To prepare the nanoparticles, the team reduced SiCl 4 with metallic magnesium in a molten salt of AlCl 3 at 200 ?C AlCl 3 not only acts as molten salt, but also participates in the reaction. 2015) “Preparation of Nanocrystalline Silicon from SiCl 4 at 200?°C C inside a stainless steel autoclave. —Lin et al.

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Lux: Li-ion dominating grid storage market with 90% of 2014 proposals

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Molten salt batteries still account for a majority of installations by energy capacity, because of NGK Insulators’ early lead, but are no longer the technology of choice, according to Lux. Globally, as of January 2015, 1,100 MW and 2,523 MWh of grid storage have been deployed across 605 projects.

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ORNL and Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics in CRADA for development of fluoride salt-cooled high-temp reactors

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The project will draw on ORNL’s expertise in fuels, materials, instrumentation and controls, design concepts, and modeling and simulation for advanced reactors, as well as the lab’s experience in the design, construction and operation of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, the only molten salt reactor ever built.

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Oak Ridge-GM prototype low-viscosity ionic liquid-additized engine oil delivers 2% fuel economy improvement over 5W-30

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Accordingly, the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Vehicle Technologies Office, which sponsored this research, has set a goal of 2% fuel economy improvement via lubricant advances by 2015. Ionic liquids are “room temperature molten salts”, composed of cations & anions, instead of neutral molecules.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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In 2015, Mumgaard huddled with a group of his fellow MIT researchers to rethink the approach to fusion power. At this point, CFS’s preferred approach is to use a blanket of molten salt, which could also breed tritium (also known as hydrogen-3), a rare isotope used to fuel magnetic confinement reactors.

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