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AUGUST 2, 2021

Improving the systems and processes for how energy is stored, converted, and used, including manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries to support electric vehicles. Topic Area 3a: Structured Electrode Manufacturing for Lithium-ion Batteries. Topic Area 3: Energy Systems.

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MARCH 27, 2013

EnerG2, a manufacturer of advanced carbons for next-generation energy storage ( earlier post ), has begun production of nano-structured hard carbon for Li-ion battery anodes that it says can boost anode capacity by more than 50% over standard graphite. Click to enlarge. We have broken through a critical performance barrier.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

With prior ARPA-E support, Sila developed a unique drop-in replacement silicon (Si) dominant composite anode powder that boosts automotive lithium-ion battery (LIB) energy density by 20%+ and enables fast charging. High-Throughput Manufacturing of Breakthrough Polymer Electrolyte to Enable Low-Cost Solid-State Batteries - $8,000,000.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) battery scientist Nitash Balsara and co-inventor Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have launched Blue Current , a startup company backed by investment firm Faster LLC, to commercialize their non-flammable electrolytes for Li-ion batteries.

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MARCH 12, 2010

Sketch of the Sn/C/CGPE/ Li 2 S/C polymer battery. The battery is formed by a Sn/C composite anode, a PEO-based gel polymer electrolyte, and a Li 2 S/C cathode. A major hurdle is the high solubility in the organic electrolyte of the polysulfides Li 2 S x (1?x?8) PEO=poly(ethylene oxide). Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Materials in certain high energy density lithium-ion battery electrodes—specifically, materials that undergo conversion and alloying reactions with lithium—expand and contract during charge and discharge; these volume changes drive particle fracture, which shortens battery lifetime. Click here to view movie. —Ebner et al.

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JULY 28, 2011

Researchers with the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have embedded arrays of tin (Sn) nanopillars between graphene sheets without adding any polymer binder and carbon black for as-formed use as a high-performance anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs).

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JANUARY 19, 2018

A team of researchers led by scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have designed an active polyelectrolyte binder (PEB) that actively regulates key ion transport processes within a lithium-sulfur battery, and have also shown how it functions on a molecular level. —Li et al.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The new electrode concept comes from the laboratory of Ju Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and professor of materials science and engineering. —Ju Li. One of the biggest problems is that when the battery is charged up, atoms accumulate inside the lithium metal, causing it to expand.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

As part of its new IONICS (Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion Conducting Solids) program awards ( earlier post ), the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded $3.5 24M cell compared to conventional Li-ion cell. Schematic of a 24M cell, from the patent. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 13, 2014

have developed an analysis method that enables direct observation of electron activity in the cathode material of lithium-ion batteries during charging and discharging. Nissan Motor Company and its affiliate Nissan Arc Ltd. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 5, 2014

Woven carbon fiber can act as an electrode for lithium ion batteries. Researchers in Sweden are exploring the use of carbon fiber as an active electrode in a multifunctional structural Li-ion battery in an electric car; i.e., electrical storage is incorporated into the body of the car. Photo: Peter Larsson) Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $37 million in funding for 16 innovative new projects as part of a new ARPA-E program: Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion-Conducting Solids ( IONICS ). Li-ion conductors that enable the cycling of Li metal without shorting.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2016

IONICS also seeks to develop and apply methods for processing of solid ion conductors and their integration into electrochemical devices. Program Categories include: Lithium (Li) ion conductors that enable the cycling of Li metal without shorting; Selective and low-cost separators for batteries with liquid reactants (e.g.,

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APRIL 12, 2015

CEES has three main research thrusts: the development of advanced lithium-ion and multivalent ion batteries; the development of rechargeable metal-air batteries; and Development of reversible low and elevated temperature fuel cells. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries. Rechargeable metal-air batteries.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

and the University of Surrey, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, have developed new, crosslinked gel-matrix polymer electrolytes exhibiting measured capacitance values more than 100 times those of conventional electrolytes. Researchers from Augmented Optics Ltd. —Jim Heathcote, Chief Executive of both Augmented Optics Ltd.

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JUNE 14, 2015

As described in a paper published in the journal ACS Nano , the researchers devised a nanostructured graphene framework coated by an in situ formed solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) with Li depositing in the pores (SEI-coated graphene, SCG). The stable and efficient Li deposition was maintained after 2000 cycles. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 19, 2011

Two high-pressure cylinders store hydrogen at a pressure of 700 bar. The polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell provides output of 98 kW (133 hp), and the Li-ion battery pack has a capacity of 1.3

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Peter Bruce has further investigated the behavior of carbon as a possible porous cathode for aprotic Li-air cells; a paper on their work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Given the role of carbon as a possible porous positive electrode for nonaqueous Li?O For their study, they cycled carbon cathodes in Li?O

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AUGUST 24, 2016

A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. plugin EVs to Tesla’s 85 kWh battery pack). — Herya and Sundaresan.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

John Goodenough, known around the world for his pioneering work that led to the invention of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, have devised a new strategy for a safe, low-cost, all-solid-state rechargeable sodium or lithium battery cell that has the required energy density and cycle life for a battery that powers an all-electric road vehicle.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Energy storage is storing energy through a medium or device and releasing it when needed. With the development of science and technology, lithium-ion batteries have become mainstream. Not only that, but energy storage is also an important research direction in the field of electric vehicles. Classification of energy storage.

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MAY 23, 2018

StoreDot has developed a lithium ion-based battery technology which enables ultra-fast charging for the mobile and industrial markets. The electric vehicle will have a pack comprising of hundreds of EV flash battery cells that can store enough energy for a full EV range on a 5-minute charge. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 1, 2011

John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. The high energy storage has stimulated a worldwide study of Li-air batteries. A typical Li-air battery discharges at 2.5-2.7 V vs. Li/Li + at room temperature.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

This high energy density enables the Solar Impulse 2 to store more energy without increasing the plane’s weight or size. In the production of its cells, Kokam uses its patented Z-folding manufacturing technique and advanced Lithium Polymer and thin film laminations. Total mass of the batteries is 633kg (2,077 lb). Source: Kokam.

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MAY 18, 2009

The Li-S battery is of interest due a high theoretical specific energy density (~2,600 Wh/kg) that exceeds that of conventional lithium-ion batteries by about a factor of five, good low-temperature performance, and its use of inexpensive and nontoxic raw materials. A paper on their work appears online in the journal Nature Materials.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

By Kamlesh & Raphae Every major automaker has announced plans to build Lithium-Ion battery gigafactories. Video: EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think! So there is a lot of Lithium out there, even if we continue to use Lithium-Ion batteries for the next 20 years, we are good.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The core of each of these individual cells is a polymer membrane, with a platinum-based catalyst on both sides of the membrane. The tanks can store around five kilograms of hydrogen at a pressure of 700 bar—enough to drive more than 500 kilometers (310.7 kWh, 36 kW Li-ion battery pack comes from the Jetta Hybrid.

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MARCH 31, 2010

liter Theta II engine (169 hp/126 kW at 6,000 rpm and 156 lb-ft/212 N·m of torque at 4,500 rpm); a 6-speed automatic transmission; a 30 kW (151 lb-ft/205 N·m) electric motor; and a lithium-polymer battery pack. lithium polymer battery pack (5.3 Li-poly battery pack. Lithium polymer batteries offer 1.7 Theta II 2.4-liter

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MAY 21, 2023

To power an electrical system, such as an energy storage system (ESS) or an electric vehicle (EV), a battery pack is a device that stores electrical energy. The battery pack has cells that are all interconnected and used to store energy. The lithium-ion cell (li-ion cell) is the most popular chemical in the EV sector.

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JULY 9, 2010

The aircraft, called Rapid 200-FC, completed its maiden flight on 20 May 2010, using a completely electrical hybrid power system, comprising a 20 kW PEM fuel cell and a 20 kW Li-Po battery. kW (10 hp) electric motors and store the solar energy for the night in a 400 kg lithium-ion polymer battery system (25% of the weight of the plane).

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JANUARY 18, 2014

ion batteries is approximately four times too high on a kWh basis; current batteries are two to three times too heavy and large, and high? ion batteries are not intrinsically tolerant to abusive conditions. energy storing) materials. cost titanium structures; polymer?metal energy batteries. energy lithium?ion active (non?energy

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Alloy or Li metal anodes. High voltage and solid polymer composite electrolytes. Li/air and Li/S systems. Technologies that reduce the time needed for Li-ion cell formation and improved Li-ion coating process through the use of either dry processing techniques or more environmentally benign solvents, such as water.

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JULY 31, 2009

Surface coatings on Li-ion electrodes and transparent conductive coatings for solar cells and displays. I) Exfoliated Graphite NanoPlatelets and II) Metal Nano Particles as Multifunctional Materials for Polymers and Energy Storage (Drzal). Exfoliated Graphite Nanoplatelet (xGnP)/Polypropylene Nanocomposites.

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APRIL 30, 2010

This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. Li-S Battery : Development of High Energy Li-S Cells for Electric Vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The lithium-ion battery comprises 168 prismatic cells and is liquid-cooled. Its emphasis is on lithium-ion battery systems, which are put together using a flexible, modular concept. Their outer skin is made from aluminum-coated polymer and this in turn brings weight advantages. With a capacity of 17.3 Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Target energy density is 6-20 times that available state-of-the-art Li-ion batteries and at. Silicon Coated Nanofiber Paper as a Lithium-Ion Anode. This is the first round of projects funded under ARPA-E, which is receiving total of $400 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. DOE Grant: $4,000,000).

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