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Piedmont Lithium selects Tennessee for second lithium hydroxide project; 30,000 metric tons per year

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This process eliminates the acid-leaching of spodumene and the production sodium sulfate waste, which will make Tennessee Lithium one of the world’s most sustainable lithium hydroxide operations, according to the company. Based on prior studies, Piedmont plans to invest approximately $600 million in the development of the operation.

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Former Tesla 4680 cell production engineer lands at American Battery Factory

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Therefore, the need to produce more cells to provide automakers and customers with suitable options is definitely a work in progress. Rivian , Ford, and Volkswagen are also utilizing the cell chemistry for some of their vehicles. Tesla says ‘nearly half’ of the vehicles it produced in Q1 equipped LFP batteries.

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OM Group to Acquire Advanced Battery Manufacturer EaglePicher Technologies for $171.9M

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has signed a definitive agreement to purchase EaglePicher Technologies LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of EaglePicher Corporation, for $171.9 million to develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. OM Group, Inc., Earlier post.).

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Swiss researchers devise simple procedure to enhance performance of conventional Li-ion batteries without changing chemistries

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But performance will definitely be enhanced, perhaps by as much as 30 – 50%—further experiments should yield more accurate prognoses. And it has the additional bonus of being transferable to other anode-cathode batteries such as those based on sodium.

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Physicists Spin Up Quantum Tornadoes

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We start with a Bose-Einstein condensate, 1 million sodium atoms that share one and the same quantum-mechanical wave function”, says Martin Zwierlein , a professor of physics at MIT. Most studies have focused on the behavior of electrons, and the MIT researchers are trying to use sodium atoms as stand-ins, says Zweirlein.

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Did J.J. Thomson Discover the Electron?

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But he did not conclude with a definitive statement on the discovery of the electron. Rather, he ended by simply noting that the ratio is of the same order as the value that Dutch physicist Pieter Zeeman deduced the previous year, in his experiments on the magnetic field of sodium light.

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

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John DeMaio: No, not by any means, but that is definitely a concern. Solid-state, lithium-sulfur, sodium batteries—would all of these still be using graphite in the anode? Sodium batteries, for example, may have great cold-weather performance. The actual cell doesn’t expand. Charged : What about future battery technologies?

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