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APRIL 18, 2019

Illustration of the process to restore lithium ions to degraded NMC cathodes using eutectic molten salts at ambient pressure. The team is tuning this process so that it can be used to recycle any type of cathode materials used in lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. The work was published in Advanced Energy Materials.

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Molten Salt Li-ion San Diego Lithium Ion 230

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JULY 10, 2012

GE will invest an additional $70 million to expand its sodium-halide battery manufacturing plant in New York, which is part of the company’s new Energy Storage business. The batteries thus are produced using abundantly available raw materials such as salt and nickel and are non-toxic and fully recyclable.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The winning concepts were: A molten air battery that uses a molten salt electrolyte at elevated temperature from Professor Stuart Licht at George Washington University. The Open Innovation Contest on energy storage is coordinated by the BASF research unit “Process Research and Chemical Engineering.

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Energy Storage Molten Salt North Carolina Energy 150

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OCTOBER 11, 2014

Fluoride-salt High-Temperature Reactor. A group of universities led by Charles Forsberg of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) at MIT has been awarded $5 million as part of the NEUP initiative.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

Mainstream Engineering will develop a vacuum swing separation technology to separate and capture volatile radionuclides, which should lower life cycle capital and operating costs, and minimize waste that must be stored. Award amount: $2,659,677). Award amount: $1,580,774). Award amount: $2,711,342). Award amount: $1,454,074).

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JULY 10, 2019

High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Development of low-cost magnetocaloric materials, $150,000 General Engineering and Research, L.L.C., Madison, Wis. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. Louisville, Colo. San Diego, Calif.

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