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Electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ licenses ORNL cobalt-free battery tech

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Stealth-mode electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate the use of cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. SPARKZ Inc. I look at this as a very strategic partnership.

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Faraday Institution to award up to £55M to five consortia for energy storage research

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The new projects in four focus areas join the existing Faraday Institution research projects that collectively aim to deliver the organisation’s mission to accelerate breakthroughs in energy storage technologies to benefit the UK in the global race to electrification. Next generation lithium ion cathode materials.

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Low-cost 5V dual carbon battery development for EV 

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Low-cost 5V dual carbon battery development for EV . A 5V Dual Carbon Battery that uses self-standing carbon fibre mats as both electrodes such as cathode and anode has been developed by the Electrochemical Energy Storage Lab at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH).

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Georgia Tech team develops highly efficient multi-phase catalyst for SOFCs and other energy storage and conversion systems

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The catalyst is also readily applicable to other energy storage and conversion systems, including metal-air batteries, supercapacitors, electrolyzers, dye-sensitized solar cells, and photocatalysis. An open-access paper on their work appears in the journal Joule. This work demonstrates that a multi-phase catalyst coating (?30

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RPI team develops method to use paper-making by-product in lithium-sulfur batteries

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Lignosulfonate, a sulfonated carbon waste material, is a major by-product in the papermaking industry. 1 , suggesting its promising potential for applications in the field of high energy storage devices. Schematic illustration of the circulatory synthesis procedure of the Act PyLs-Cap S composite. Click to enlarge.

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Canada awards Nano One up to $349,000 to improve durability of Li-ion batteries; high-voltage spinel

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Nano One Materials has launched a project focused on improving the durability of lithium-ion cathode materials with the support of the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP). The automotive industry is seeking higher levels of energy density to extend the range of electric vehicles.

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Study suggests lithium and cobalt for batteries may face supply risks by 2050

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Use of the existing nickel/cobalt-rich average cathode material mixtures would result in high cobalt demand by the battery industry. Currently, the battery industry already accounts for 50% of the total demand for cobalt. b | The energy-storage demand for the reference devices. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier 2018.

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