article thumbnail

Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

Green Car Congress

Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

MIT 210
article thumbnail

Cornell team develops aluminum-anode batteries with up to 10,000 cycles

Green Car Congress

Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering, have been exploring the use of low-cost materials to create rechargeable batteries that will make energy storage more affordable. —lead author Jingxu (Kent) Zheng, currently a postdoc at MIT.

Batteries 454
article thumbnail

Sun Catalytix Signs $4M ARPA-E Contract and Forms Scientific Advisory Board; Affordable Catalysts for Water Splitting

Green Car Congress

The SAB is chaired by John Deutch, Institute Professor at MIT, whose government experience includes service as Director of Energy Research and Undersecretary of the Department of Energy, and Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology. —John Deutch.

Water 199
article thumbnail

Building Better Batteries: NanoeXa Uses Quantum Simulation Software to Deliver Advanced Lithium-Ion Battery Materials

Green Car Congress

NanoeXa has licensed key materials technologies from Argonne National Lab ( earlier post ), and develops enhanced and more affordable battery materials using the QSS system. One of the exhibits at the ARPA-E summit presented The Materials Genome from the Ceder Group at MIT.

article thumbnail

Sadoway and MIT team demonstrate calcium-metal-based liquid metal battery

Green Car Congress

MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his team have demonstrated a long-cycle-life calcium-metal-based liquid-metal rechargeable battery for grid-scale energy storage, overcoming the problems that have precluded the use of the element: its high melting temperature, high reactivity and unfavorably high solubility in molten salts.

article thumbnail

MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The discovery came when MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder found out how to get a common lithium compound to release and take up lithium ions in a matter of seconds. What I do need is an affordable alternative to Lead Acid. Like this post? Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay up to date. by RSS or sign up by email.

MIT 45
article thumbnail

DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

Green Car Congress

The LT team will develop a gas fermentation process that leverages affordable, renewable hydrogen to capture and fix CO 2 directly into valuable fuels and chemicals. At commercial scale, the inputs to the proposed “carbon refinery” process are carbon-free renewable energy, water, and CO 2. Ohio State University.

Carbon 303