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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

They obtained a high specific energy of 762 Wh kg -1 with high average potential of 3.2 Recently, room temperature sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have received tremendous attention for electrochemical energy storage applications owing to their low cost and the abundant resource of sodium compared with lithium. —Huang et al.

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JULY 25, 2016

Climate & Renewables North America, LLC (E.ON) signed an agreement with Tucson Electric Power (TEP) to provide frequency response and voltage control from a grid-scale, 10 megawatt (MW) battery energy storage facility with a 2 MW solar array. The project is expected to be completed in the first half of 2017.

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JULY 21, 2020

Solid-state energy storage technologies such as solid-state lithium metal batteries, which use a solid electrode and a solid electrolyte, can provide high energy density combined with excellent safety, but the technology must overcome diverse materials and processing challenges. —co-author Venkat. Venturi, V.,

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding a combined $2.8 Anovion, with its partners, collaborators and stakeholders, will build 35,000 tons per annum of new synthetic graphite anode material capacity for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and critical energy storage applications. Earlier post.) Of that, $1.6

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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. It combines a lithium metal anode, proprietary electrolyte and high-voltage cathode to achieve high energy density and thermal durability. Boeing has invested in Berkeley, Calif.-based

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Responsible Battery Coalition, in partnership with the University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems, launched a comprehensive research project to compare the total cost of ownership of gas and electric vehicles (EVs). Gregory Keoleian, Director of the Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) awarded A$22.1 In December 2017, ARENA announced the funding round into hydrogen R&D. It is the first time ARENA had sought to fund research into the hydrogen energy supply chain. With the right conditions, hydrogen exports could be worth $1.7

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MARCH 15, 2018

However, at present, the use of cobalt is still often necessary for cathode materials with high energy density owing to its stabilizing effect in layered oxides (including NCM(622) and NCA). Estimated number of devices and related energy demand for 2016–2050. b | The energy-storage demand for the reference devices.

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JULY 1, 2019

Improvements to a class of battery electrolyte first introduced in 2017—liquefied gas electrolytes—could pave the way to replacing the graphite anode with a lithium-metal anode. cycling efficiency reported in the 2017 Science paper, and an 85% cycling efficiency for lithium metal anodes with a conventional (liquid) electrolyte.

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JULY 10, 2018

GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. The company develops and produces lithium-ion batteries, battery systems for electromobility and energy storage solutions. With an annual supply of 12 GWh in 2017, CATL is number one in the global automotive battery industry. Energy storage system customers: State Grid.

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APRIL 21, 2021

Doyle previously spent 25 years at DuPont and was part of the executive team responsible for managing the Dow-DuPont merger in 2017, culminating in the successful IPO of the new DuPont in 2019. a, Nb 16 W 5 O 55 and Nb 18 W 16 O 93 charge-storage results are compared to high-rate electrode formulations from the literature.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The automotive industry, in its pursuit of vehicle electrification, is particularly interested in ASSB to boost vehicle range, while using an overall safer and simpler energy storage system as compared to current state of the art lithium-ion batteries. Solid Power originated as a spin-out from the University of Colorado Boulder.

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JULY 10, 2018

GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. The company develops and produces lithium-ion batteries, battery systems for electromobility and energy storage solutions. With an annual supply of 12 GWh in 2017, CATL is number one in the global automotive battery industry. Energy storage system customers: State Grid.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

A team from the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei is proposing a new approach to estimate the state of health of EV battery packs using an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization algorithm. Thew researchers define the battery pack SOH as the change of battery pack maximum energy storage. 2017.11.068.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, setting up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham. Sommerville, R., Kendrick, E., Driscoll, L., Stolkin, R.,

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APRIL 14, 2017

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a proof-of-principle photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) capable of capturing excess photon energy normally lost to generating heat. The research is outlined in a paper in Nature Energy. —Matthew Beard.

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APRIL 8, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its five-year 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. The plan is organized into 12 strategic objectives aimed at three distinct goals: Science and Energy; Nuclear Security; and Management and Performance. DOE will continue to pursue carbon capture and storage technologies as well as nuclear power.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Its formation was announced in October 2017 by the Business Secretary Greg Clark. With ICL, university partners include University of Southampton, University of Warwick, University of Oxford, Lancaster University, University of Bath, and University College London. Earlier post.). million (US$6.4

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NOVEMBER 28, 2013

The UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV) have awarded £598,000 (US$980,000) to micro-bead hydrogen storage company Cella Energy ( earlier post ) and its partners MIRA, Coventry University and Productiv to develop a hydrogen generation system to extend the range of battery electric vehicles.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Magnesium rechargeable batteries (MRBs) are emerging as an attractive candidate for energy storage in terms of safety, energy density, and scalability because magnesium metal has ideal properties as a battery anode: high capacity, low redox potential, dendrite-free deposition, and earth-abundant resources. —Hyun Deog Yoo.

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MAY 1, 2017

Lithium-air (Li-O 2 ) batteries are among the nost energy-dense electrochemical platforms for mobile energy storage, and are thus considered promising for electrified transportation. Archer (2017) “Designer interphases for the lithium-oxygen electrochemical cell” Science Advances Vol. —Choudhury et al. 1602809.

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MARCH 22, 2017

Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) presented the HX2 autonomous, battery-electric, load carrier at CONEXPO/CON-AGG 2017. The Swedish Energy Agency—a government agency for national energy policy issues—is helping to fund the project and the universities are carrying out research.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

With support from FCTO, within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, selected project partners will be granted access to H2@ Scale facilities, capabilities, and expertise at DOE national laboratories. Proposals will be due by 15 September 2017.

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JULY 20, 2018

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have shed new light on the atomic-level mechanism of the sulfur embrittlement of nickel, a classic problem that has puzzled the scientific community for nearly a century. —Jian Luo.

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APRIL 23, 2017

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to fabricate nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Coating the silicon nanoparticles with carbon to improve their stability and energy storage properties.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

TEMA), is requesting proposals from young professors and scholars pursuing innovative electrochemical research in green energy technology. Energy harvesting technology, including photovoltaics, thermoelectric, piezoelectric, and triboelectric materials. Other high risk, high reward next generation green energy technologies.

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MAY 15, 2017

Results of a study by a team at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, suggest that the additional cycling to discharge vehicle batteries to the power grid in a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) scenario, even at constant power, is detrimental to EV battery cell performance. 2017.05.015.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.,

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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. However, the technology has several holdups, including losing energy as it stores and releases its charge.The reaction mechanisms are, in general, not well understood. 2017.40.

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JUNE 16, 2017

By mimicking fibrinolysis, a biological self-healing process, researchers at China’s Tsinghua University have developed a self-healing sulfur microparticle (SMiP) cathode. This inspires many promising applications toward smart electronics, artificial skin, and energy storage. mg (S) cm −2. —Peng et al. 6b12358.

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JUNE 19, 2017

A team at the University of Waterloo in Canada has developed a novel adaptive auxiliary battery-powered anti-idling system for service vehicles (e.g. delivery trucks or public buses); the energy storage system in the regenerative auxiliary power system (RAPS) is able to electrify the vehicle auxiliary systems. 2017.03.119.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stanford researchers have developed a sodium-ion battery (SIB) that can store the same amount of energy as a state-of-the-art lithium ion, at substantially lower cost. In addition, material sustainability is also a critical factor when considering the total economic and environmental benefits for grid-scale energy storage applications.

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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. However, there remain a number of unresolved issues precluding commercialization at this point.

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MARCH 1, 2017

An open-access paper on the work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. Replacing a conventional host insertion compound as a cathode by a redox center for plating an alkali-metal cathode provides a safe, low-cost, all-solid-state cell with a large capacity resulting in high energy density and a long cycle life.

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JULY 21, 2017

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. They developed molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

A team from Zhejiang University of Technology and the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong has developed a core-shell yolk-shell Si@C@void@C nanohybrid for use as a Li-ion battery anode. This work provides a novel clue to develop advanced Si- or Sn-based anode materials for energy storage. —Xie et al.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

In a review paper in the journal Nature Materials , Jean-Marie Tarascon (Professor at College de France and Director of RS2E, French Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage) and Clare Gray (Professor at the University of Cambridge), call for integrating the sustainability of battery materials into the R&D efforts to improve rechargeable batteries.

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