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Faradion and Phillips 66 to develop lower cost and higher-performing sodium-ion battery materials

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

UK-based Faradion, a developer of sodium-ion battery technology ( earlier post ), and Phillips 66 have launched a new technical collaboration to develop lower-cost and higher-performing anode materials for sodium-ion batteries. Earlier post.).

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Sodium Batteries Battery Lead Acid

Iowa State/Ames Lab researcher receives $3M from ARPA-E for solid-state sodium battery

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded $3 million from its 2015 OPEN funding to a project to develop an all-solid-state sodium battery. A sodium-based battery, on the other hand, has the potential to store larger amounts of electrical energy at a significantly lower cost. Led by Steve W.

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Sodium Iowa Batteries Battery

U Alberta team develops hybrid sodium-ion capacitor; intermediate in energy & power between ultracaps and batteries

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

A team led by researchers from the University of Alberta (Canada) Scientists has developed a hybrid sodium-ion capacitor (NIC) using active materials in both the anode and the cathode derived entirely from peanut shells—a green and highly economical waste globally generated at more than 6 million tons per year. Batteries'

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Sodium Li-ion Hybrid Energy

UT Austin team identifies promising new cathode material for sodium-ion batteries: eldfellite

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Professor John Goodenough, the inventor of the lithium-ion battery, and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have identified a new cathode material made of the nontoxic and inexpensive mineral eldfellite (NaFe(SO 4 ) 2 ), presenting a significant advancement in the quest for a commercially viable sodium-ion battery.

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Sodium Austin Li-ion Lithium Ion

U Waterloo team identifies key reaction in sodium-air batteries; implications for improving Li-air

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MAY 28, 2015

Chemists at the University of Waterloo have identified the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries. Understanding how sodium-oxygen batteries work has implications for developing the more powerful lithium-oxygen battery, which has been proposed by some as the “holy grail” of electrochemical energy storage.

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Sodium Li-ion Batteries Battery

Vanderbilt researchers find iron pyrite quantum dots boost performance of sodium-ion and Li-ion batteries

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have demonstrated that ultrafine sizes (∼4.5 nm, average) of iron pyrite (FeS 2 ) nanoparticles are advantageous to sustain reversible conversion reactions in sodium ion and lithium ion batteries. A paper on their work is published in the journal ACS Nano.

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Li-ion Sodium Lithium Sulfur Batteries

PATHION develops new LiRAP-based solid-state electrolytes for Li-sulfur and sodium-ion batteries

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APRIL 28, 2015

At the Spring 2015 Materials Research Conference in San Francisco earlier this month, PATHION presented two new derivative superionic solid-state electrolytes built upon LiRAP (Lithium-Rich Anti-Perovskite). PATHION is working on a derivative for Li-sulfur batteries as well as a derivative that could be applied in a sodium-ion battery.

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Li-ion Sodium Lithium Sulfur Batteries

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

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MARCH 4, 2011

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. The new battery uses sodium-containing substances melted at a high temperature. The company and the university have applied for patents.

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Molten Salt Universal Lithium Ion Li-ion

New multifunctional polymer binder achieves theoretical capacity of LiFePO4 Li-ion batteries without additives

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JUNE 15, 2015

Researchers led by a team from Griffith University in Australia have developed a multifunctional polymer binder that not only maintains the outstanding binding capabilities of sodium alginate but also enhances the mechanical integrity and lithium-ion diffusion coefficient in a LiFePO 4 (LFP) electrode during the operation of the batteries.

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Li-ion Polymer Lithium Ion Sodium

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

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

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. In a joint project with Kyoto University, Sumitomo developed a molten salt with a melting point as low as 57 °C.

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Molten Salt Sodium Batteries Battery

Vanderbilt team develops ultrafast, high capacity and long-lived Na-ion anode

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

As we demonstrate in this work, few-layered graphene materials may enable sodium-ion batteries as a storage platform which brings simultaneous promise for all of these applications. Pint (2015) “Ultrafast Solvent-Assisted Sodium Ion Intercalation into Highly Crystalline Few-Layered Graphene” Nano Letters doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04187.

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Sodium Low Cost Solar Carbon

Polymer microcapsules with liquid carbonate cores and silicone shells offer a new approach to carbon capture

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

The team, led by scientists from Harvard University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, employed a microfluidic assembly technique to produce microcapsules that contain liquid sorbents encased in highly permeable polymer shells. Hardin IV of Harvard University; and Elizabeth Glogowski of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Polymer Carbon Universal Gas-Electric

Lund researchers develop optimized two-phase enzymatic process for production of biodiesel

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APRIL 6, 2015

Researchers at Lund University (Sweden) have developed an optimized two-phase enzymatic (lipase) system for the conversion of plant oils to biodiesel. Applied to the solvent-free ethanolysis of rapeseed oil, the system delivered a yield of 96% under mild conditions. Under the mild conditions used, chemical catalysts were inefficient.

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Production Cheap Oil Sodium

Self-propelled catalytic microparticles boost hydrogen release from liquid storage media

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APRIL 27, 2015

Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed catalytically active micromotors that significantly increase the release of hydrogen from liquid storage media. Singh, Fernando Soto, Kevin Kaufmann, and Joseph Wang (2015) “Micromotor-Based Energy Generation” Angew. times more rapid. —Singh et al.

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Hydrogen Sodium San Diego Concept

Oregon State researchers demonstrate potassium-ion (K-ion) battery

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Researchers at Oregon State University have shown that potassium can work with graphite in a potassium-ion battery (KIB)—a discovery that could offer a challenge and sustainable alternative to the widely-used lithium-ion battery (LIB). Zelang Jian, Wei Luo, and Xiulei Ji (2015) “Carbon Electrodes for K-Ion Batteries” J.

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Oregon Batteries Battery Lithium Ion

DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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JULY 10, 2019

OTT was established in 2015 to advance the economic, energy, and national security interests of the United States by expanding the commercial impact of the Department of Energy’s research and development portfolio. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc., Pipersville, Pa.

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MIT and Moscow State collaborating on advanced batteries, metal-air batteries and reversible fuel/electrolysis cells

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APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Chiang Yet-Ming (2015). Rechargeable metal-air batteries. —Carl Thompson. Energy Mater. ,

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MIT Li-ion Batteries Battery

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Faradion and Phillips 66 to develop lower cost and higher-performing sodium-ion battery materials

Iowa State/Ames Lab researcher receives $3M from ARPA-E for solid-state sodium battery

U Alberta team develops hybrid sodium-ion capacitor; intermediate in energy & power between ultracaps and batteries

UT Austin team identifies promising new cathode material for sodium-ion batteries: eldfellite

U Waterloo team identifies key reaction in sodium-air batteries; implications for improving Li-air

Vanderbilt researchers find iron pyrite quantum dots boost performance of sodium-ion and Li-ion batteries

PATHION develops new LiRAP-based solid-state electrolytes for Li-sulfur and sodium-ion batteries

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

New multifunctional polymer binder achieves theoretical capacity of LiFePO4 Li-ion batteries without additives

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

Vanderbilt team develops ultrafast, high capacity and long-lived Na-ion anode

Polymer microcapsules with liquid carbonate cores and silicone shells offer a new approach to carbon capture

Lund researchers develop optimized two-phase enzymatic process for production of biodiesel

Self-propelled catalytic microparticles boost hydrogen release from liquid storage media

Oregon State researchers demonstrate potassium-ion (K-ion) battery

DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

MIT and Moscow State collaborating on advanced batteries, metal-air batteries and reversible fuel/electrolysis cells

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