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FEBRUARY 25, 2023
Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a lithium-air battery with a solid electrolyte. The four-electron reaction is enabled by a mixed ion–electron-conducting discharge product and its interface with air. . …
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JANUARY 19, 2016
Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory, with colleagues in the US and Korea, have demonstrated a lithium-oxygen battery based on lithium superoxide (LiO 2 ). This remains a core challenge that needs to be overcome for the viable commercialization of Li-air technology. —Lu et al. —Khalil Amine.
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AUGUST 15, 2017
Lithium-air (or lithium-oxygen) batteries potentially could offer three times the gravimetric energy of current Li-ion batteries (3500 Wh/kg at the cell level); as such, they are looked to a potential solution for long-range EVs. V), where Li 2 O 2 is formed directly through electrochemical steps.
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NOVEMBER 1, 2012
Voltage profiles (A) and initial cycling behavior (B) of the Li x Si-O 2 -C cell. Although the resulting battery has lower voltage and capacity than a conventional Li-air battery, it offers enhanced safety and an energy density higher than Li-ion batteries. Cycling current: 200 mA g ?1 Click to enlarge.
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APRIL 27, 2017
Lithium-air batteries are looked to by many as a very high-energy density next-generation energy storage solution for electric vehicles. However, the technology has several holdups, including losing energy as it stores and releases its charge.The reaction mechanisms are, in general, not well understood.
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NOVEMBER 5, 2011
A team from Japan’s AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) reports on the development of a “lithium–air capacitor–battery based on a hybrid electrolyte” in a paper in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. Energy Environ. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).
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MARCH 12, 2012
In an open access paper published in the International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials , researchers from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences review significant developments and remaining challenges of practical Li–air batteries and the current understanding of their chemistry.
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