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Stanford team develops new ultrahigh surface area 3D porous graphitic carbon material for improved energy storage

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Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. Their results are presented in an open access paper published in the journal ACS Central Science. —To et al.

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Rice University researchers develop inexpensive silicon-based anode for Li-ion batteries with good capacity and cycle life

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Comparison of the discharge capacity and coulombic efficiency of MPSPs/PPAN anodes at various ratios versus cycle number. This performance combined with low cost processing yields a competitive anode material that will have an immediate and direct application in lithium ion batteries, according to the research team.

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Study shows paper-folding concepts can compact a Li-ion battery and increase its areal energy density

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Researchers at Arizona State University have shown that paper-folding concepts can be applied to Li-ion batteries in order to realize a device with higher areal energy densities. Recently, there has been much interest in the development of electronic and energy storage devices using paper and textile components.

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Faradion demonstrates proof-of-concept sodium-ion electric bike

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Oxford University was also a partner. Although lithium-ion batteries are currently the predominant battery technology in electric and hybrid vehicles, as well as other energy storage applications, sodium-ion could offer significant cost, safety and sustainability benefits. Each module contains 12 Faradion cells.

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Sandwich-like MnO2/Mn/MnO2 nanotube array shows high supercapacitive performance

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Researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China designed and synthesized novel MnO 2 /Mn/MnO 2 sandwich-like nanotube arrays for supercapacitors. Ragone plots (energy density vs power density): (1) MnO 2 /Mn/MnO 2 SNTAs and (2) MnO 2 NTAs. Comparison of cycling performance of (1) and (2) for 3000 cycles at 1.5

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DOE FCTO selects 11 fuel cell incubator projects for up to $10M in awards; exploring alkaline exchange membrane FCs

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An NREL report summarizing the 2011 Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cell Workshop noted that: In comparison with PEMFCs, AMFCs offer the advantage of avoiding Pt or Pt group metal (PGM) electrocatalysts, one of the primary limitations in the commercial deployment of fuel cells. … Northeastern University. University of California, Irvine.

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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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In addition, material sustainability is also a critical factor when considering the total economic and environmental benefits for grid-scale energy storage applications. The researchers focused mainly on the favorable cost-performance comparisons between their sodium-ion battery and lithium.

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