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MAY 9, 2017

Materials researchers of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Switzerland have, in collaboration with the Université Grenoble Alpes (France), developed a simple method that can improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries by 25-30%. For example, the lithium-sulfur battery rapidly loses capacity with repeated charging.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have designed a lithium–sulfur battery using electrically connected graphite and lithium metal as a hybrid anode to control undesirable surface reactions on lithium. Huang et al. Click to enlarge. —Huang et al.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

OXIS Energy will develop a low temperature electrolyte for Lithium Sulfur (Li-S) rechargeable battery chemistry and Hyperdrive Innovation Ltd will develop a chemistry-agnostic battery management system and packaging that will withstand and outperform the current lead-acid battery solutions.

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MARCH 31, 2016

Lithium-sulfur batteries—comprising a sulfur cathode and Li metal anode—are widely seen as a very promising next-generation electric energy storage system due to their very high theoretical specific energy (2550 Wh kg −1 ) and energy density (2862 Wh L −1 ). Background. Bhattacharya, P.,

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated in the laboratory a lithium-sulfur (Li/S) battery that has more than twice the specific energy of lithium-ion batteries, and that lasts for more than 1,500 cycles of charge-discharge with minimal decay of the battery’s capacity.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Many of the most studied nanostructured materials for metal-ion batteries, such as silicon, exhibit alloying or intercalation reactions where the metal ions shuttle through a solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer to store charge within the interior of the storage material. Pint Lab / Vanderbilt) Click to enlarge.

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MAY 2, 2017

Li-sulfur batteries are looked to as a likely next-generation higher energy density energy storage system due to the high theoretical capacity, low cost and high earth abundance of sulfur. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters. Ah/cm 2 and good cycle life. Junzheng Chen, Wesley A.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Electrochemical performance of sulfur–TiO 2 yolk–shell nanostructures. (a) a) Charge/discharge capacity and Coulombic efficiency over 1,000 cycles at 0.5 b) Capacity retention of sulfur–TiO 2 yolk–shell nanostructures cycled at 0.5 C, in comparison with bare sulfur and sulfur–TiO 2 core–shell nanoparticles.

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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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JANUARY 1, 2015

a) Discharge/charge profile of 5 nm S NPs at 0.1 A team at the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO) has demonstrated that the electrochemical performance of sulfur nanoparticles (NPs) in the cathode of a Lithium-sulfur battery is critically dependent on the sulfur particle size. sulfur (Li?S)

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JANUARY 14, 2015

Lithium–sulfur batteries are one of the most promising candidates to satisfy emerging market demands, as they possess a theoretical capacity and energy density of 1,675 mAh g -1 and 2,500 kW kg -1 , respectively, superior to current lithium-ion batteries. Resources. Garsuch, T. Weiss, and L.F. Batteries'

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

This will be followed by an assessment of the perceived technological barriers and the potential energy density gains for so-called post-LiBs, namely lithium-oxygen and lithium-sulfur batteries. Therefore, companies have been establishing fast-charging stations (ranging, e.g., from 24 kW by BMW to 120 kW by Tesla).

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Lithium-sulfur batteries are extremely attractive as a next-generation energy storage solution due to their high theoretical energy density (2600 W·h·kg −1 ), environmental friendliness, and low cost due to the earth-abundant resource of elemental sulfur—also a byproduct from the petroleum industry.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Lithium sulfur (Li?S) S) battery is a promising candidate for next- generation energy storage devices. However, lithium metal has safety and cyclability issues due to the formation of lithium dendrites; the pulverized and detached lithium metal formed during cycling can result in explosions when exposed to air.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Lithium-sulfur and lithium air batteries have the potential to store 10 times more energy in the same space as the current state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries. Using this insight, the team discovered a way to significantly extend the lifetime of lithium electrodes, to be revealed in a future publication.

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MAY 16, 2016

As often stated, Li-sulfur batteries are extremely attractive as high-capacity next-generation energy storage systems due to their high theoretical specific capacity (S: 1675 mAh g -1) and excellent theoretical energy density (2600 Wh kg -1 ), low cost, environment friendliness and abundance. 2016.05.024.

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JULY 8, 2013

They suggest that a low cost, non-flammable and heavy-metal-free aqueous cathode can contribute to the feasibility of scale-up of lithium-iodine batteries for practical energy storage. V versus Li + /Li and the discharge and charge potentials were stable at 3.50 The specific energy density (~0.33 kWh kg -1 cell (1.0

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

Li-sulfur batteries—which conventionally use elemental sulfur (with conductive additives) as the cathode, an aprotic liquid electrolyte, and lithium metal as the anode—are under intensive investigation by research groups worldwide because of the promise for low-cost, high-energy storage. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 11, 2015

charge profiles at various current rates from C/8 to 8C. (e) We believe that such a simple and controllable electrochemical assembly protocol will provide a new pathway for the production of various graphene-containing composites with unique structures for catalysis, sensors, and energy storage and conversions. —Li et al.

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JUNE 5, 2009

The combination of lithium and manganese rich mixed metal oxides extends the operating time between charges, increases the calendar life and improves the inherent safety of lithium-ion cells. Furthermore, charging high-capacity xLi 2 MnO 3 •(1-x)LiMO 2 electrodes to a high potential (>4.4 Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

would leverage abundant, domestic natural gas resources and. Electron Energy. ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Transportation Energy Storage. carbon atoms, to store energy at ten times greater density than. Supercapacitors store energy in a manner. similar to a battery, yet can charge and discharge much more.

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MAY 16, 2014

Researchers at Tsinghua University have combined two types of carbon materials to create a new composite sulfur cathode material for a high-energy and high-power lithium-sulfur battery. Future work will explore the increase of sulfur loading, as well as the optimization of the structure of the cell. Jorio et al.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

(c) GDC voltage profiles of S/(CNT@MPC) at different discharge/charge rates. (d) 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.,

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APRIL 7, 2015

Researchers at the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have successfully used an in situ NMR technique to probe the transient electrochemical and chemical reactions occurring during the cycling of a Li–sulfur system. —Xiao et al. 5b00521.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

The low energy density and/or high cost of these cathode materials have limited their large-scale production and application in Li ion batteries. Discovery of new cathode materials with higher energy density is, thus, a key to realizing more efficient energy storage systems. Recently, lithium?sulfur

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

In 2012, the US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $120 million over five years to establish a new Batteries and Energy Storage Hub known as the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR). Li ions carry a single positive charge. Both of these have a two-plus charge. (Mg Earlier post.)

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