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ion Ventures and LiNa Energy conclude successful test of solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform

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MARCH 11, 2021

ion Ventures, a modern utility and energy storage infrastructure specialist, and LiNa Energy , a solid-state battery technology developer, concluded their first successful trial of LiNa’s proprietary solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform at an undisclosed location in South East England last week.

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Solid-state sodium-ion battery company LiNa Energy closes out £3M late seed funding round

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Solid-state sodium-ion battery company LiNa Energy has closed out a £3-million (US$3.4-million) LiNa’s battery cells utilize proven Sodium-Metal-Chloride chemistry in a planar design made possible with an ultra-thin solid ceramic electrolyte. million) late seed funding round, primarily from existing investors. Earlier post.)

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Solid-state sodium battery company LiNa Energy closes £3.5M funding round

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Solid-state sodium battery company LiNa Energy ( earlier post ) has closed out a £3.5-million LiNa Energy, a spin-out from Lancaster University, established in 2017, is commercializing a safe, cobalt- and lithium-free solid-state sodium battery. million (US$4.8-million)

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Altris presents high-capacity Prussian White cathode material for Na-ion batteries; 160 mAh/g

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JUNE 30, 2023

Swedish sodium-ion battery developer Altris presented a pure Prussian White cathode material with a capacity of 160 mAh/g, making it the highest capacity declared to date. Prussian White is a framework material consisting of sodium, iron, carbon and nitrogen (Na x Fe[Fe(CN) 6 ] with x>1.9). Earlier post.)

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New hierarchical metal-organic nanocomposite cathode for high-energy sodium-ion batteries

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Building on earlier work, researchers in China have fabricated a hierarchical metal-organic nanocomposite for use as a cathode in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). 2017) “In-Situ Formed Hierarchical Metal-Organic Flexible Cathode for High-Energy Sodium-Ion Batteries” ChemSusChem doi: 10.1002/cssc.201701484. —Huang et al.

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Empa, UNIGE team develop prototype solid-state sodium battery; focus on improving the solid-solid interface

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Researchers at Empa and the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have developed a prototype of a novel solid-state sodium battery with the potential to store extra energy and with improved safety. The closo-borate sodium superionic conductor—Na 2 (B 12 H 12 ) 0.5 (B B 10 H 10 ) 0. —Duchêne et al. Duchêne et al. Resources.

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Stanford team develops sodium-ion battery with performance equivalent to Li-ion, but at much lower cost

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stanford researchers have developed a sodium-ion battery (SIB) that can store the same amount of energy as a state-of-the-art lithium ion, at substantially lower cost. Thus, further research is required to find better sodium host materials. The sodium salt makes up the cathode; the anode is made up of phosphorous.

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Study suggests lithium and cobalt for batteries may face supply risks by 2050

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MARCH 15, 2018

The researchers present these results in the journal Nature Reviews Materials as part of a cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. … The Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and the Justus-Liebig University Gießen are also involved in these efforts. —Vaalma et al. Resources.

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UK, Iran team develops new materials to improve enhanced oil recovery

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JULY 30, 2017

A new class of materials which are suitable agents for displacing oil in enhanced oil recovery operations has been developed by scientists at Swansea University (UK) and scientists at Islamic Azad University in Iran. Barron reported their find in the ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. Barron is the Charles W.

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Goodenough and UT team report new strategy for all-solid-state Na or Li battery suitable for EVs; plating cathodes

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MARCH 1, 2017

lithium, sodium or potassium) on a copper–carbon cathode current collector at a voltage of more than 3.0 Finally, sodium is cheaper than lithium and widely available from the oceans, which makes a sodium battery preferable to a lithium battery, but insertion hosts for Na + have lower capacities than insertion hosts for Li +.

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ORNL-led team uses carbon material derived from tire waste to convert used cooking oil to biofuel

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AUGUST 21, 2017

The study, done with collaborators Wake Forest University and Georgia Institute of Technology and detailed in Chemistry Select , provides a pathway for inexpensive, environmentally benign and high value-added waste tire-derived products—a step toward large-scale biofuel production, according to ORNL co-author Parans Paranthaman.

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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

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JULY 1, 2018

A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. —Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor of medicine at Washington University. In October 2017, The Lancet Commission on pollution and health published a report outlining knowledge gaps on pollution’s harmful health effects.

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Researchers call for integration of materials sustainability into battery research; the need for in situ monitoring

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JANUARY 18, 2017

In a review paper in the journal Nature Materials , Jean-Marie Tarascon (Professor at College de France and Director of RS2E, French Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage) and Clare Gray (Professor at the University of Cambridge), call for integrating the sustainability of battery materials into the R&D efforts to improve rechargeable batteries.

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ion Ventures and LiNa Energy conclude successful test of solid-state sodium-nickel battery platform

Solid-state sodium-ion battery company LiNa Energy closes out £3M late seed funding round

Solid-state sodium battery company LiNa Energy closes £3.5M funding round

Altris presents high-capacity Prussian White cathode material for Na-ion batteries; 160 mAh/g

New hierarchical metal-organic nanocomposite cathode for high-energy sodium-ion batteries

Empa, UNIGE team develop prototype solid-state sodium battery; focus on improving the solid-solid interface

Stanford team develops sodium-ion battery with performance equivalent to Li-ion, but at much lower cost

Study suggests lithium and cobalt for batteries may face supply risks by 2050

UK, Iran team develops new materials to improve enhanced oil recovery

Goodenough and UT team report new strategy for all-solid-state Na or Li battery suitable for EVs; plating cathodes

ORNL-led team uses carbon material derived from tire waste to convert used cooking oil to biofuel

Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

Researchers call for integration of materials sustainability into battery research; the need for in situ monitoring

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