Electric Cars are for Girls

JULY 20, 2012

Maybe there's something even better for EVs than lithium ion batteries. These have never been very robust, but maybe that's all changing now.

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Electric Cars are for Girls

JULY 20, 2012

Maybe there's something even better for EVs than lithium ion batteries. These have never been very robust, but maybe that's all changing now.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

Sample UDRI solid-state, rechargeable lithium-air batteries, and Dr. Binod Kumar. Engineers at the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) have developed a solid-state, rechargeable lithium-air battery. Abraham (2010) A Solid-State, Rechargeable, Long Cycle Life Lithium–Air Battery. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2010

Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago, will host on 3-4 May 2010 the symposium “ Beyond Lithium Ion: Computational Perspectives ” to discuss research opportunities in electrochemical energy storage, specifically, lithium-air batteries for transportation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2009

General schematic of a lithium-air battery. The team plans to explore rechargeable Lithium-Air systems, which could offer 10 times the energy capacity of lithium-ion systems. Lithium-ion rechargeable (secondary) batteries are based on a pair of intercalation electrodes. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2009

Oxygen drawn from the air reacts within the porous carbon to release the electrical charge in this lithium-air battery. Researchers in the UK are developing a rechargeable lithium-air battery that could deliver a ten-fold increase in energy capacity compared to that of currently available lithium-ion cells.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Argonne National Laboratory, which has contributed heavily to the research and development of Li-ion battery technology, is now pursuing research into Lithium-air batteries. Li-air batteries use a catalytic air cathode that converts oxygen to lithium peroxide; an electrolyte; and a lithium anode.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

New batteries could one day power cars, airplanes, trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

Novel Organosulfur-Based Electrolytes for Safe Operation of High Voltage Lithium-ion Batteries Over a Wide Operating Temperature. Fluorinated Ester Local High Concentration Electrolytes For Operation of Lithium-ion Batteries Under Extreme Conditions. art Lithium Sulfur and Lithium Air Battery Cells.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The goal is to achieve immensely higher energy and power densities than conventional lithium-ion batteries with liquid electrolyte, with the additional benefit of being fireproof. Solid-state batteries would be a giant step towards area-wide e-mobility. They recently published findings on this subject in the journal Physical Science.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2014

one of the industry leaders in the development and manufacture of cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, are entering exclusive negotiations to form a joint venture for cathode active materials (CAM) based in Japan. BASF is also researching future battery technologies such as lithium-sulfur and lithium-air.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2012

These developments could take the energy density of lithium-ion cells close to 300 Wh/kg. The report— Cost and performance of EV batteries —describes the current state of development and cost of batteries, before mapping the future cost and performance of lithium-ion batteries out to 2030.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The elimination of the lithium metal anode addresses one of the major issues affecting the development of the lithium-air battery: the safety hazard of the anode. “ carbon composite particles with a lithium foil. V, graphite anode and lithium cobalt oxide cathode, lithium-ion batteries, assumed as 384 Wh kg ?1.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

Scientists at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan have made an electrode for a lithium-air battery using a pencil. Haoshen Zhou and Yonggang Wang designed a battery in which the lithium is encapsulated by an organic electrolyte topped with a ceramic protection layer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2014

Researchers at Mie University in Japan have developed a new protected lithium electrode for aqueous lithium/air rechargeable batteries. Lead researcher Nobuyuki Imanishi said that the system has a practical energy density of more than 300 Wh/kg, about twice that of many commercial lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2021

The new application was found somewhat serendipitously, after it had initially been developed a few years ago by MIT professor Yang Shao-Horn, Johnson, and others, in a collaborative venture aimed at lithium-air battery development. There’s still really nothing that allows a good rechargeable lithium-air battery.

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My Electric Car

JANUARY 29, 2023

For example the volumetric energy density of lithium-ion batteries has increased eightfold since 2008, from around 55 watt-hours/litre to 450 watt-hours/litre in 2020. At the same time the cost of lithium-ion battery packs declined 87% between 2008 and 2021.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

BioSolar’s cathode technology, which has been the primary focus of its university-led research and development efforts, is a novel conductive polymer material that leverages fast redox-reaction properties rather than conventional lithium-ion intercalation chemistry to enable rapid charge and discharge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

The companies also today signed a binding agreement to commence collaborative research on lithium-air batteries. This agreement marks the second phase of collaborative research into next-generation lithium-ion battery cells that commenced in March 2012. Li-air battery. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) liter and 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

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. One reaction that hasn’t been fully explained is how oxygen blows bubbles inside a lithium-air battery when it discharges. The paper is published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2010

The 19 projects, which include two lithium-air efforts, will leverage $7.3 Next-generation lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. Materials for improved lithium-ion battery electrodes for automotive applications. Lithium-air storage systems that could have applications in vehicle or grid systems.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2013

BASF is focused on developing a full suite of advanced cathode and electrolyte solutions for current and next-generation lithium-ion batteries as well as for future battery systems. The Beachwood site has been a hub of catalysis research for more than 35 years.

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Ions (electrons) flow between the electrodes, passing through the electrolyte, to create an electric current. Another approach under development is adding lithium salt to the electrolyte of lithium-ion batteries to reduce flammability. All three components offer opportunities for improvement.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Advanced systems such as lithium-air, sodium-ion, as well as lithium-ion electrochemical energy storage are appropriate. The interest in electrochemical energy storage is on high-energy density and high-power density batteries suitable for transportation and renewable energy storage applications.

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Green Car Congress

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. —Tuodziecki et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

BASF offers a portfolio of advanced NCM (Nickel Cobalt Manganese) cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries to allow higher energy density, improved safety due to a higher temperature stability, and increased efficiency by enabling more discharge/charge cycles for batteries. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

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. —Zhang et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2013

Although several attempts have been made on the anode materials, the main disadvantages is that their energy density is still much lower than that of conventional lithium ion batteries due to the narrow electrochemical window of water. Lithium metal reacts rapidly with water to produce hydrogen and lithium hydroxide, LiOH.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Merck has more than 10 years experience in the production of electrolytes for Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors. Also included in the transaction is a variety of additives for electrolytes used to produce lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2011

A study led by researchers from Argonne National Laboratory reinforced that electrolyte solvent stability plays a key role in the performance of Lithium-air batteries, and that making advances in new electrolytes will be a key factor in reducing the large overpotential and improving reversibility of Li-air batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

Conventional lithium-air batteries draw in oxygen from the outside air to drive a chemical reaction with the battery’s lithium during the discharging cycle, and this oxygen is then released again to the atmosphere during the reverse reaction in the charging cycle. —Zhu et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2013

A team including researchers from Hanyang University (South Korea) and University of Rome Sapienza (Italy) have shown that operating temperature plays an important role in the performance of Lithium-air batteries. 10 to 70 °C. All of the cycles were run under a fixed capacity regime of 1000 mAh g ?1

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2016

Lithium-air batteries form lithium peroxide (Li 2 O 2 )—a solid precipitate that clogs the pores of the electrode and degrades cell performance—as part of the charge−discharge reaction process. We have to learn how to design catalysts to understand exactly what’s involved in lithium-air batteries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Advanced liquid electrolytes for lithium-ion cells under extreme conditions, such as extreme fast charging, and mechanical, thermal, or electrical abuse. Novel liquid electrolytes for lithium-sulfur cells that improve the overall stability and performance of these cells. Lithium-sulfur and lithium-air battery cell development.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 26, 2021

With the increase in the demand for different energy sources, worldwide efforts are being made to develop different kinds of energy devices such as lithium-ion batteries, lead-acid batteries, redox flow batteries, lithium-air batteries, zinc-air batteries, sodium-ion batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

optioned a PNNL-developed method for building titanium oxide and carbon structures that greatly improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries. The new material stores twice as much electricity at high charge/discharge rates as current lithium ion batteries, and creates increased battery capacity and a longer cycle life.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2015

Advanced systems such as lithium-air, sodium-ion, as well as lithium-ion electrochemical energy storage are appropriate. The focus is on high-energy density and high-power density batteries suitable for transportation and renewable energy storage applications.

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