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UT Austin team devises new strategy for safe, low-cost, all-solid-state rechargeable Na or Li batteries suited for EVs

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, including Prof. With this glass, a rechargeable battery with a metallic lithium or sodium anode and an insertion-compound as cathode may require a polymer or liquid catholyte in contact with the cathode. eV, which promises to offer acceptable operation at lower temperatures.

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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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RECLAIM: Electrochemical Lithium and Nickel Extraction with Concurrent Carbon Dioxide Mineralization ($2,999,997). Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air. Harvard University. Harvard will expand the productive fields for CO 2 injection and enhanced mining by 100%.

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Goodenough and UT team report new strategy for all-solid-state Na or Li battery suitable for EVs; plating cathodes

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lithium, sodium or potassium) on a copper–carbon cathode current collector at a voltage of more than 3.0 Finally, sodium is cheaper than lithium and widely available from the oceans, which makes a sodium battery preferable to a lithium battery, but insertion hosts for Na + have lower capacities than insertion hosts for Li +.

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Univ. of Texas researchers propose lithium- or sodium-water batteries as next generation of high-capacity battery technology; applicable for EVs and grid storage

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John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. The present sodium-sulfur battery operates above 300 °C. A = lithium or sodium (Li or Na), M represents a metal and 1 ≤ n < z. —Lu et al.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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This project will develop and implement an Energy Internet microgrid, located in a large mixed-use infill development site in Austin, Texas. Demonstration of Sodium Ion Battery for Grid Level Applications. Pecan Street Project (TX). 10,792,045. 44 Tech Inc. (PA). 10,000,000. East Penn Manufacturing Co. (PA).