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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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A team at Cornell University has used ice-templating to synthesize hierarchical porous carbons (HPCs) with extremely high surface areas of up to 2340 m 2 g −1 with total pore volume of up to 3.8 cm 3 g −1 as supports for sulfur for electrodes in Li–S batteries. Estevez, Anirudh Ramanujapuram, Francis J. DiSalvo, Emmanuel P. Deville, E.

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

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Berkeley Lab battery scientist Nitash Balsara, working with collaborator Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill led the effort on the hybrid electrolyte. Balsara was one of the co-founders of battery startup Seeo, founded in 2007 to develop a solid block copolymer electrolyte. earlier post ).

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