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Cornell team uses ice-templating to synthesize porous carbon for high performance electrodes for Li-S batteries

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cm 3 g −1 as supports for sulfur for electrodes in Li–S batteries. Giannelis (2015) “High-rate lithiumsulfur batteries enabled by hierarchical porous carbons synthesized via ice templation,” Journal of Power Sources , Volume 297 Pages 188-194 doi: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2015.07.068. DiSalvo, Emmanuel P. 2015.07.068.

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3 winners of DOE’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” Challenge: hydrogen-assisted lean-burn engines, graphene for Li-air and -sulfur batteries, and titanium process

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Vorbeck Materials , a startup company based in Jessup, Maryland, is using a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)-developed method for developing graphene for better lithium air and lithium sulfur batteries.

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JRC assesses EU RD&D investments in electric-drive vehicles; controls and energy storage top the list

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The report “ Paving the way to electrified road transport – Publicly funded research, development, and demonstration projects on electric and plug-in cars in Europe ”, lists more than 320 projects covering the period 2007-2015. EASYBAT, IoE); Battery recycling. Vehicle body and architecture. EUR 25832) doi: 10.2790/85057 (online).

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New hybrid polymer-glass electrolyte for solid-state lithium batteries

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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. earlier post ).

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