Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Tsinghua University (China) have synthesized graphene oxide-sulfur (GO-S) nanocomposite cathodes and applied them in lithium/sulfur cells to show a high reversible capacity of 950-1400 mAh g -1 and stable cycling for more than 50 deep cycles at 0.1C (1C = 1675 mA g -1 ).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2020

An international team of researchers led by Monash University has developed an ultra-high capacity Li-S battery that has better performance and less environmental impact than current lithium-ion products. Lithium-sulfur batteries can displace lithium-ion by delivering higher specific energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2014

UK-based OXIS Energy and Multi Source Power technologies ( MSP ) have formed a partnership to develop Li-sulfur batteries for marine applications. The partners will launch the new battery in the spring of 2015. Founded in 2005, OXIS Energy Ltd. Founded in 2005, OXIS Energy Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2019

A team of researchers from China and Germany have used azulene—a benzene-free and vinyl-free molecule—to polymerize with sulfur to create a cathode material for Li-S batteries. Cycling performance of Az-S and pure sulfur at 0.3 Chen et al. —Chen et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Researchers at South China Normal University in Guangzhou have developed a novel composite of sulfur loaded in micropore-rich carbon aerogel (CA-S) for use as a cathode in Li-sulfur batteries. These issues limit the practical application of lithium-sulfur battery. 2016.10.003.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2014

Metallic lithium, with a high theoretical capacity of ~3,860 mAh g -1 , is one of the most promising materials for anodes in next-generation high energy rechargeable battery systems for long-range electric vehicles. S batteries requires a reliable lithium metal anode. ”. Earlier post.) 1 after 200 cycles at 40 °C.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

DNA has a high concentration of heteroatoms, including oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus, that can anchor soluble polysulfides to improve the cycling performance of Li/S batteries. Rechargeable lithium/sulfur battery promises an appealing candidate for energy storage to power portable devices and electric vehicles.

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My Electric Car

JANUARY 29, 2023

Electric car batteries are a crucial component in the development of electric vehicles (EVs) and have seen significant advancements in recent years. For example the volumetric energy density of lithium-ion batteries has increased eightfold since 2008, from around 55 watt-hours/litre to 450 watt-hours/litre in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2014

Researchers in China, with colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have synthesized an additive-free nanocomposite cathode in which sulfur nanoparticles are wrapped inside nitrogen-doped graphene sheets (S@NG). Li2S), the corresponding theoretical specific capacity and energy density are as high as 1675 mA h g ?1

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Vasant Kumar at the University of Cambridge and Professor Renjie Chen at the Beijing Institute of Technology has devised a three-dimensional hierarchical sandwich-type graphene sheet-sulfur/carbon (GS-S/C ZIF8-D ) composite to address performance-related issues in Lithium-sulfur batteries such as low efficiency and capacity degradation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Researchers from Central South University in Changsha, China, have developed a separator with a nitrogen-doped porous hollow carbon sphere (NHC) coating for use in Li-S batteries. The NHC-decorated separator enormously improves the utilization of active material and enhances electrochemical performance. 2015.09.067.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2011

million in funding for renewable energy and biomedical technology projects in the second year of a joint program that teams up investigators from both schools. The energy projects aim to improve wind turbines and electric vehicle batteries and to better understand the combustion physics of biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Researchers from China and the US have developed a flexible slurryless nano-Li 2 S/reduced graphene oxide cathode paper (nano-Li 2 S/rGO paper) which can be directly used as a free-standing and binder-free cathode without metal substrate, which leads to significant weight savings in batteries. Lithium sulfur (Li?S)

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Li-ion Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Researchers from China and Australia have developed a mechanically robust biopolymer network binder that enabled the preparation of high-loading sulfur electrodes to improve the electrochemical performance of Li-sulfur batteries. The binder supported a high-sulfur-loading electrode of 19.8 mg cm -2 at 0.8

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

Researchers in China report the development of a rationally designed Li−S cathode consisting of a freestanding composite thin film assembled from sulfur nanoparticles, reduced graphene oxide (rGO), and a multifunctional additive poly(anthraquinonyl sulfide) (PAQS): nano-S:rGO:PAQS.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2015

A team at Beihang University in China has synthesized cathode materials for Li-sulfur batteries consisting of vertically aligned sulfur–graphene (S-G) nanowalls on electrically conductive substrates. This is the best demonstrated rate performance for sulfur–graphene cathodes to date, according to the team.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A team led by Professor Cheong Ying Chan at Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology (HKUST) Energy Institute, has proposed a novel cathode design concept for lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery that substantially improves the performance of this kind of promising next-generation battery. —Zhao et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2016

Researchers from Hunan University and Changsha University in China have designed 3D hierarchical porous nitrogen-doped aligned carbon nanotubes (HPNACNTs) with well-directed 1D conductive electron paths as scaffold to load sulfur for use as a high-performance cathode in Li-S batteries. 2016.05.024.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

There are three main forms of graphite: spherical graphite is used in non-EV battery applications, whereas EV batteries use a blend of coated spherical graphite and synthetic graphite. Some advanced designs use a small amount of silicon, which can store more energy. What exactly does graphite do in the anode?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Researchers in China are proposing a new strategy for addressing some of the issues limiting the commercialization of high energy density lithium-sulfur batteries ( earlier post ): using small sulfur allotropes (different forms of the same element)—i.e., sulfur batteries, such as Li?S,

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

“Energy and information are two basic currencies of organic and social systems," the economics Nobelist Herb Simon once. Reliable, secure supplies of minerals and software are core elements for EVs, which represent a “shift from a fuel-intensive to a material-intensive energy system,” according to a. observed. "A Ford and its.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH. Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? Whereas, battery EVs fueled on average grid electricity emit 105–124 g CO2 eq./km,

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH. Scientists inform us that today’s transportation sector is the largest contributor to US greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, but how clean are lithium-ion batteries? Whereas, battery EVs fueled on average grid electricity emit 105–124 g CO2 eq./km,

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