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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Stony Brook University have fabricated a thicker electrode for lithium-ion batteries by controlling nanosheet assembly via the combination of an external magnetic field and drying-based densification. —Zhengyu Ju, lead author. —Ju et al. Zhengyu Ju et al. 2212777119.

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JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2013

A team from the University of Science and Technology Beijing is proposing a new super-valent battery based on aluminium ion intercalation and deintercalation. Nowadays, due to their outstanding energy and power density, Li-ion batteries have become a mainstay for EES [electrical energy storage]. Wang et al.

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JULY 20, 2011

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has entered into a licensing agreement with Xerion Advanced Battery Corp under which Xerion has the exclusive right to bring the University’s patented StructurePore electrode technology to the market. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Xerion Advanced Battery Corp.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems. (DOE Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The result is ultra-high-energy, safe and low-cost solid-state rechargeable batteries. In October, Solid Power became an Affiliate Member of the US Department of Energy’s Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR). JCESR’s goal is to create new breakthrough energy storage technologies.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

France’s Eco2charge consortium, coordinated by Bouygues Energie & Services, recently launched an R&D program at the Fédération Nationale des Travaux Publics (National federation of public works) to accelerate the deployment of charging solutions for electric vehicles, especially in commercial buildings. second-life”).

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JULY 14, 2010

Ilhan Aksay’s group at Princeton University, has demonstrated that small quantities of high-quality graphene can dramatically improve the power and cycling stability of Li-ion batteries, while maintaining high-energy storage capacities. Vorbeck Materials Corp., PNNL, in collaboration with Prof. Earlier post.).

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MAY 18, 2009

Researchers in the UK are developing a rechargeable lithium-air battery that could deliver a ten-fold increase in energy capacity compared to that of currently available lithium-ion cells. The project addresses a number of the materials issues necessary to realize this high energy storage battery based on a non-aqueous O 2 electrode.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

However, the most commonly used ones have low energy densities compared to other storage systems such as batteries or fuel cells, which in turn cannot discharge and recharge rapidly without sustaining damage. Capacitors are commonly used in electronic devices to maintain power supply while a battery is being charged.

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JULY 18, 2009

Exide Technologies entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the US Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and the University of Idaho to develop and commercialize improvements on lead-acid battery technology for applications including hybrid electric vehicles and renewable energy storage.

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MARCH 25, 2009

a surface engineering and nanotechnology co-development company and Exide Technologies, one of the world’s largest producers and recyclers of lead-acid batteries, have formed an alliance to develop innovative energy storage solutions. Whitesides of Harvard University. Nano-Terra, Inc., Mountain Power Inc.

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APRIL 4, 2017

Provided over four years, the support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing energy storage. MIT’s Martin Bazant, joined by colleagues at Stanford University and Purdue University, will lead an effort to develop a novel, data-driven design of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries.

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JUNE 16, 2016

Researchers from Griffith University in Australia and Peking University in China have synthesized low-cost, hierarchically porous, and nitrogen-doped loofah sponge carbon (N-LSC) derived from the loofah sponge via a simple calcining process and applied it as a multifunctional blocking layer for Li–S, Li–Se, and Li–I 2 batteries.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The implementation of this industrial and commercial ecosystem will take place gradually between 2021 and 2024, replacing the production of new vehicles. The parts and materials resulting from this activity will also enrich the activities of Factory VO, as well as Re-Energy and Re-Cycle.

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MAY 16, 2014

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Tsinghua University in China, and Case Western Reserve University have developed a flexible micro-scale supercapacitor with what they believe is the highest reported volumetric energy density for carbon-based microscale supercapacitors to date: 6.3

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JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 22, 2020

The lithium-aluminum-layered double hydroxide chloride (LDH) sorbent being developed by ORNL targets recovery of lithium from geothermal brines—paving the way for increased domestic production of the material for today’s rechargeable batteries. Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

A team at Purdue University has used pollens as the basis for carbon architectures for anodes in energy storage devices. Solid, dense carbon particles provides high energy density to the rechargeable batteries. Findings showed the cattail pollens performed better than bee pollen. —Tang and Pol.

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DECEMBER 29, 2013

Researchers at Tsinghua University have developed a high-power-density zinc-air fuel cell (ZAFC) stack using an inexpensive manganese dioxide (MnO 2 ) catalyst with potassium hydroxide (KOH) electrolyte. Many efforts are focused on batteries and fuel cells, which can be used for EVs propulsion and large-scale energy storage.

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JUNE 13, 2011

a leading maker of battery-electric commercial transit buses. Using technology developed by Proterra, the lightweight, composite-body bus recharges in about 10 minutes. While this investment will help Proterra commercialize its electric bus and fast-charging technology, it also helps to address the future challenges of urban mobility.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The selected OPEN 2018 projects are in 21 states and fall into 9 technical categories, including transportation, electricity generation and delivery, and energy efficiency. . Novel Polymer-enhanced Rechargeable Aluminum-Alkaline Battery Technology – $2,000,000. University of California, San Diego. University of Delaware.

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APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. In 2009, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu named Dr. John B.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Each microgrid includes generation, loads, transformers, distribution lines, protective devices, and, typically, energy storage. times as great as the combined growth in the commercial and industrial sectors. The average cost of electricity for commercial users in Puerto Rico is about 29 U.S. megawatts to 224.6

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But we do actually need that energy to be generated,” says Alper Bozkurt, who with Veena Misra codirects the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University. Not least of those considerations is energy storage [and generation].”

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AUGUST 18, 2014

The highest energy density for Li-CNT-F batteries, 4,113 Wh kg carbon ?1 Researchers at the University of Alberta are developing , and, via their spin-out AdvEn Solutions working to commercialize, a new high power- and -energy density battery system: lithium-carbon-fluorine (Li-C-F). 1 is presented as a red star.

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MARCH 1, 2017

The solid glass electrolyte also has a surface that is wet by metallic lithium or sodium, which allows the reversible plating/stripping of an alkali-metal anode without dendrites, and an energy-gap window > 9 eV that makes it stable on contact with both an alkali-metal anode and a high-voltage cathode without the formation of an SEI.

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MAY 15, 2017

Results of a study by a team at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, suggest that the additional cycling to discharge vehicle batteries to the power grid in a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) scenario, even at constant power, is detrimental to EV battery cell performance. —Dubarry et al.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

By creating high performance parts built with solid ion conductors—solids in which ions can be mobile and store energy—the IONICS program will focus on new ways to process and integrate these parts into devices with the goal of accelerating their commercial deployment. Iowa State University. Sila Nanotechnologies.

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JUNE 19, 2014

Onboard batteries are recharged by regenerative braking as well as grid charging. The US Hybrid fuel cell, powertrain, and vehicle controller optimizes power delivered by the energy storage and fuel cell power plant. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Novolyte Technologies, a leading manufacturer and supplier of specialty electrolyte materials for lithium-ion battery and energy storage applications, high performance solvents and other specialty chemicals, has signed a definitive agreement with Foosung Co., Novolyte is contributing its energy storage business to the joint venture.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

A new study sponsored by Indiana University concludes that President Obama’s vision of one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) on US roads by 2015 will require concentrated efforts action from all stakeholders— the auto industry, federal government, the scientific community, and consumers—to be realized. —John D.

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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. showing use of aluminum ions as an energy-storage mechanism in a capacitor.

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APRIL 13, 2014

Researchers from MIT and Harvard University have developed a material that can absorb the sun’s heat and store that energy in chemical form, ready to be released again on demand. In effect, they behave as rechargeable thermal batteries: taking in energy from the sun, storing it indefinitely, and then releasing it on demand.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

In his remarks made at Stanford University during the award of the third Science Award for Electrochemistry to Dr. Vanessa Wood ( earlier post ), Prof. High-performance energy storage is key to big challenges of our times—namely climate protection and a sustainable mobility. A field where we can and must achieve progress.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. million in funds to approximately 120 energy projects within seven program areas. light energy.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) have demonstrated the concept of a potassium-air (K?O V), which renders the system with a low round-trip energy efficiency around 60%. V), which contributes to the low rechargeability. contrast with LiO 2 and NaO 2 , KO 2 is thermodynamically stable and commercially available.

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