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Monash University, Toyota Research Institute team develop family of borane-based ionic liquids for advanced battery electrolytes

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A team from Monash University, a leading university in Australia, and the Toyota Research Institute North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor North America R&D (TMNA) based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, reports a novel family of closo-boron-cluster based room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). Photo Credit: Dr. Mega Kar.

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Li-S Energy, Janus Electric to collaborate on Li-S and/or Li-metal cells for swappable prime mover packs

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Australia-based Li-S Energy has entered into an agreement with Janus Electric to develop and to test lithium sulfur and/or lithium-metal battery cells to suit the requirements of the Janus Electric exchangeable prime mover battery packs. Janus can convert all prime mover makes and models to electric power.

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Eindhoven wins world championship for solar-powered family cars in World Solar Challenge

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On the road in Australia. Eindhoven University of Technology / Bart van Overbeeke. Eindhoven University of Technology / Bart van Overbeeke. Eindhoven University of Technology / Bart van Overbeeke Click to enlarge. The Solar Team Eindhoven’s Stella, the first solar?powered Click to enlarge. Fast driving on raceway.

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Ensuring Underwater Robots Survive in Hot Tropical Waters

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“Tropical conditions can cause systems to overheat or prevent high-density lithium batteries from recharging,” says Melanie Olsen, who is a project director of the Australian Institute of Marine Science’s (AIMS) ReefWorks , a technology testing and evaluation facility in northern Australia.

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Low-cost N-doped interlayer derived from loofah sponge enables high-performance Li-S, Li-Se and LiI2 batteries

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Researchers from Griffith University in Australia and Peking University in China have synthesized low-cost, hierarchically porous, and nitrogen-doped loofah sponge carbon (N-LSC) derived from the loofah sponge via a simple calcining process and applied it as a multifunctional blocking layer for Li–S, Li–Se, and Li–I 2 batteries.

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Researchers Use NMR Spectroscopy to Observe Dendrite Formation on Li Metal Anodes

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An international team of researchers from Stony Brook University (US); CSIRO (Australia); and University of Cambridge (UK) have developed a method to use in situ NMR spectroscopy to provide time-resolved, quantitative information about the nature of the metallic lithium deposited on lithium-metal anodes—i.e.,

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Could Zinc Gel Chemistry Outperform Flow Batteries?

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A new technology from Australia is certainly raising this prospect, offering a novel approach to stationary energy storage—whose packaging at least harkens back to the old, familiar car battery. Gelion founder and inventor of the new technology, Professor Thomas Maschmeyer at the University of Sydney, describes how it works. "Our