Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

—Dominica Wong, lead author. PFPE is nothing new; it’s a polymer that has long been used as a heavy-duty lubricant to keep gears in industrial machinery running smoothly. When we discovered that we could dissolve lithium salt in this polymer, that’s when we decided to roll with it. Dominica H. —Dominca Wong.

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Li-ion Dominica Lithium Ion Battery 261

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Balsara himself co-founded his first battery company, Seeo, in 2007 based on another one of his inventions, a dry polymer electrolyte, which is non-flammable. Dominica H. There is no nonflammable lithium battery on the market today, though others are attempting to make one. Wong, Jacob L. Thelen, Yanbao Fu, Didier Devaux, Ashish A.

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Li-ion Commercial Lithium Ion Battery 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Described in a paper (“Compliant Glass-Polymer Hybrid Single-Ion-Conducting Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries”) to be published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the highly conductive hybrid electrolyte combines the two primary types of solid electrolytes: polymer and glass. Dominica H.

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Polymer Hybrid North Carolina Battery 150