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Yaocai Bai and Yuzhang Li have received the 2023–2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships for projects in green energy technology. Dr. Bai received his BS in Materials Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and MS in Materials Science in 2012 from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The Volkswagen and BASF international “Science Award Electrochemistry 2016” goes to Dr. William Chueh from Stanford University. The jury of representatives from BASF, Volkswagen and from academia selected him for his outstanding research results in the area of energy storage and conversion. Dr. William C. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

CAGR between 2010 and 2019, accelerating since 2016, according to Roskill Information Services. The maximum power output and minimum charging time of a lithium-ion battery depend on both ionic and electronic transport. 2018) “Niobium tungsten oxides for high-rate lithium-ion energy storage.” Griffith et al.

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JUNE 22, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected SiiLion, Inc. The company is developing high-energy batteries featuring pure silicon anodes and high voltage cathodes—including lithium-manganese-rich and nickel-rich chemistries—enabled using a non-flammable ionic liquid electrolyte. Source: SiiLion. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 5, 2017

Ford is exploring a variety of “beyond Li-ion” solutions, including Lithium-sulfur, Lithium-air and solid-state lithium-ion batteries. It also offers a high theoretical specific energy density. Li-sulfur is also a low-cost system due to the low cost of sulfur, also offers high energy density, Anandan said.

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MARCH 15, 2018

Lithium and cobalt are fundamental components of present lithium-ion batteries. The researchers present these results in the journal Nature Reviews Materials as part of a cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. … Estimated number of devices and related energy demand for 2016–2050.

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JUNE 18, 2015

The work will begin in June of 2016 when the support from 3M and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) ends. (3M The new collaboration, a first between the leading American electric vehicle company and a Canadian university, will bring together the teams of Dahn and Tesla’s Director of Battery Technology, Kurt Kelty.

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MAY 30, 2018

A Northwestern University research team has found ways to stabilize a promising new high capacity cathode material—Li 4 Mn 2 O 5. Lithium-ion batteries shuttle lithium ions back and forth between the anode and the cathode. Credit: Wolverton Research Group, Northwestern University. —Yao et al.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

We have developed an energy-efficient, cost-effective, environmentally friendly process to recover high-value critical materials. ORNL is a founding team member of CMI, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub led by DOE’s Ames Laboratory and managed by the Advanced Manufacturing Office. —Ramesh Bhave. Daejin Kim, Lawrence Powell, Lætitia H.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

A team from Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has developed a new practical, high-energy-capacity lithium-ion battery anode out of silicon by encapsulating Si microparticles (∼1–3 µm) using conformally synthesized cages of multilayered graphene. —Yi Cui.

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AUGUST 29, 2016

NOHMs), a Cornell University spin-out founded in 2010, raised $5 million in Series B venture capital financing to commercialize its non-flammable electric vehicle (EV) battery electrolyte technology. volts in lithium ion cells. V to improve EV battery energy density. volt lithium-ion batteries. V and 4.95

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

Consultancy Frost &Sullivan has selected UK-based lithium-sulfur battery developer OXIS Energy to receive the 2014 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation. For specific military applications, OXIS Energy is confident of achieving a significant weight reduction in excess of 50% in the near future.

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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. Herya and Sundaresan (2016). Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

One of the major issues hobbling the commercialization of high energy-density lithium-sulfur batteries is the “polysulfide shuttle”—the shuttling of polysulfide ions between the cathode and anode. Top: Schematic of the electrochemical processes in a generic lithium-sulfur battery. —Sri Narayan.

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AUGUST 15, 2016

To form stable SEI layers that cover all of the electrode surface area and ensure good lithium ion conductivity and rate capability, there must be complete wetting of the electrode and separator pores. mN m -1 ), the electrode binder, and the conductive carbon black additive. —Wood et al. 2014.11.019.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

a startup founded by former Stanford University researchers developing next-generation battery technology for potential aerospace and industrial applications. Cuberg developed an advanced lithium metal rechargeable battery cell that is designed to be a drop-in solution to existing large-scale battery manufacturing processes.

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JUNE 3, 2015

Toshiba Corporation will supply a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) to Tohoku Electric Power Company’s “Minami-Soma Substation Project to Verify the Improvement of Supply-demand Balance With Large-capacity Power Storage Systems″. end of February 2016. end of February 2016.

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JULY 10, 2018

By establishing state-of-the-art technology for lithium-ion batteries in Germany and on-site delivery options, we are closer to the customer, enabling us to offer customized solutions and respond even faster to customer needs. Energy storage system customers: State Grid. —Robin Zeng, CATL CEO. —Robin Zeng, CATL CEO.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The diverse projects will advance knowledge in critical areas ranging from sustainable energy technologies to next-generation materials. The OLCF’s Titan supercomputer is a 27-petaflop Cray XK7 hybrid system employing both CPUs and energy-efficient, high-performance GPUs in its 18,688 compute nodes. The projects will share 5.8

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JULY 12, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $19.4 million to 22 new cost-shared projects to accelerate the research of advanced battery, lightweight materials, engine emission control technologies, and energy efficient mobility systems (EEMS). University of Maryland: College Park. Penn State University Park. 400,000.

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APRIL 19, 2016

Applications are due by 12 August 2016. The award ceremony takes place in Berlin on 21 November 2016. The international “Science Award Electrochemistry” supports excellent scientific and engineering achievements and intends to provide fresh impetus to the development of high-efficiency energy storage devices. Earlier post.).

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JULY 21, 2017

Announced in 2016, the Battery500 consortium, led by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), intends to build a battery pack with a specific energy of 500 Wh/kg, compared to the 170-200 Wh/kg per kilogram in today’s typical EV battery. University of Maryland: College Park.

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JULY 10, 2018

By establishing state-of-the-art technology for lithium-ion batteries in Germany and on-site delivery options, we are closer to the customer, enabling us to offer customized solutions and respond even faster to customer needs. Energy storage system customers: State Grid. —Robin Zeng, CATL CEO. —Robin Zeng, CATL CEO.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Researchers affiliated with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, and Stanford University have demonstrated the feasibility of a next-generation hybrid anode for high-capacity Li-on batteries using silicon-nanolayer-embedded graphite/carbon. Nature Energy 1 Article number: 16113 doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.113.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

However, development of high-performance solid-state Li-ion batteries (SSLiBs) using these materials has been hobbled by the the major challenge of the high solid–solid interfacial impedance between the garnet electrolyte and electrode materials. Now, team of researchers at the University of Maryland Energy Research Center and A.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $1.25M to a team of researchers at the University of Maryland Energy Research Center ( UMERC ) for the development of advanced high-voltage electrolytes and additives, conformable and self-healing solid-state electrolytes, and lithium metal protection. Earlier post.). 1600422113.

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JULY 21, 2017

Silicon anodes can deliver 3~5-times higher capacities compared with current graphite anodes in lithium-ion batteries. Mechanical bonds have come to the rescue for the first time in an energy storage context. —Sir Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern University, 2016 Noble Laureate in Chemistry.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

University of Maryland (UMD) and US Army Research Lab (ARL) researchers are spearheading a public-private sector collaboration to further develop a lithium-ion battery that would be safer to operate and less costly to dispose of than those currently available on the market. A full lithium-ion battery of 2.3

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

However, none of these changes are sufficient to reach the DOE energy storage target of $125 kWh by 2020 , the study found. Historical prices and future cost predictions for lithium-ion batteries. These packs also use cylindrical lithium-ion cells, a departure from the prismatic cells examined in previous models.

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MAY 5, 2016

The study comes against the backdrop of a more than doubling of global lithium prices over the last 6 months. They found that the use of more expensive lithium precursor materials results in less than 1% increases in the cost of lithium-ion cells considered.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. 5b00400.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The US Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Office has awarded Donghai Wang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, a $1.1-million million grant to develop a new lithium-ion conductor for the protection of lithium metal used in next-generation battery technologies for electric vehicles.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a novel, flexible, solid-state, ion-conducting membrane based on a 3D ion-conducting ceramic nanofiber network. The 3D ion-conducting network is based on percolative garnet-type Li 6.4 La 3 Zr 2 Al 0.2 —Fu et al. 1600422113.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

TEMA), is requesting proposals from young professors and scholars pursuing innovative electrochemical research in green energy technology. Areas of particular interest include: Post-lithium ion batteries (including all-solid, air cathode, high-power aqueous, flow-based, lithium metal protection, and non-Li based systems).

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JULY 26, 2017

Solid-state lithium-ion batteries, with higher volumetric energy densities than currently available lithium-ion batteries, offer a number of conceptual advantages including improved packaging efficiency; improved safety; and long cycle life.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Mass production is expected to begin in the fourth quarter 2016. Dendrite growth threatens the safety of batteries by piercing the ion-transporting separators between the cathode and anode. They are large enough to let individual lithium ions pass, but small enough to block the 20-to-50-nanometer tips of fern-like dendrite structures.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

The GDL in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell provides a steady supply of gas to the catalyst layers, which are located on both sides of the ion exchange membrane and which convert hydrogen and oxygen into electrical energy and water. CNRS Montpellier, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., 2011.12.148.

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