Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Fraunhofer IWS in Dresden, Germany will hold its 3rd annual workshop on Lithium-sulfur batteries from 12-13 November 2014. As with the prior Lithium-Sulfur Battery Workshops in 2012 and 2013, this year’s symposium will bring together an international audience of scientists and industrial customers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2009

Sion Power Corporation and BASF SE have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to accelerate the commercialization of Sion Power’s proprietary lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery technology for the electric vehicle (EV) market and other high-energy applications. Configuration of a Li-S cell. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

UK-based Lithium-sulfur battery company OXIS Energy ( earlier post ) reported developing a Lithium-sulfur cell achieving in excess of 300 Wh/kg. OXIS CEO Huw Hampson-Jones says that the company is on schedule to release commercial cells for use in applications in the USA and Europe in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

alpha-En Corporation, a company that has developed a patent-pending process to produce high-purity thin-film lithium metal anodes and associated products sustainably, will receive an award of $750,000 from the US Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transition Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2015

A team of researchers in South Korea and Italy has demonstrated a highly reliable lithium–sulfur battery showing cycle performance comparable to that of commercially available lithium-ion batteries while offering more than double the energy density. Another major concern regarding the lithium?sulfur

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MARCH 2, 2018

million) in Li-Sulfur battery company OXIS Energy. Established in 2005, OXIS Energy has developed, and continues to advance, an innovative Lithium Sulfur (Li-S) battery chemistry. Aerotec, a Brazilian Private Equity fund, will invest £3.75 million (US$5.2 The investment is Aerotec’s first international venture.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2015

Airbus Defence and Space and Sion Power Corporation signed a three-year Collaborative Agreement under which Sion Power will enhance and supply proprietary lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries for use in Airbus Defence and Space’s Zephyr High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) aircraft. Earlier post.)

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MAY 25, 2016

Lithium-sulfur batteries are considered as highly promising candidate applied for EVs due to their high specific energy. X-ray studies at Advanced Light Source (LBNL) and Canadian Light Source (CLS) revealed the mechanism and interaction between sulfur and alucone MLD coating. Future work is aimed at addressing these issues.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The PNNL-developed technologies were made available the on the laboratory’s Available Technologies website as well as on DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy website, the Energy Innovation Portal. Each year, pests cause many millions of dollars in damage to homes and commercial buildings.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2017

Polysulfide-Blocking Polymer Membrane Separators for Rechargeable Lithium-Sulfur Batteries The advanced energy economy will be a dominant market force in the 21st century, one driven by US demand but asymmetrically low domestic supply without immediate action. This has the potential to displace over 4.2 Sepion Technologies.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The projects, which are expected to run over four years, address battery challenges faced by industry and leverage the UK’s research capabilities to advance scientific knowledge with the aim of commercializing new battery technologies and processes. Alternative cell chemistry beyond lithium ion–LiSTAR, Lithium-Sulfur Technology Accelerator.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2009

Moreover, the enhanced stability of the composite material permits battery systems to charge at higher voltages, which leads to a substantially higher energy storage capacity than currently available material through both the higher voltage and higher capacity per unit weight of active material. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new electrolyte that allows lithium-sulfur, lithium-metal and lithium-air batteries to operate at 99% efficiency, while having a high current density and without growing dendrites that short-circuit rechargeable batteries. Li metal deposition.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Vorbeck Materials , a startup company based in Jessup, Maryland, is using a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)-developed method for developing graphene for better lithium air and lithium sulfur batteries. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is now kicking off a second year of “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator.”.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Light-weighting materials : Five projects awarded to accelerate commercial availability of lighter weight vehicles using advanced materials that dramatically reduce vehicle weight while maintaining the highest safety standards. Increased availability of magnesium can enable vehicle weight reduction and improvement in fuel efficiency.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

BASF has invested $50 million to acquire an equity ownership position in privately held Sion Power, the leading developer of rechargeable lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. The company is also exploring next-generation battery materials concepts, including the lithium-sulfur technologies now in early stage development with Sion Power.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Tiamat was one of 11 top-performing technology startups honoured with a Stellantis Ventures Award in 2023, and is the first company in the world to have recently commercialized a sodium-ion technology in an electrified product. Sodium-ion technology offers a lower cost per kilowatt-hour and is free of lithium and cobalt.

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MAY 16, 2014

Researchers at Tsinghua University have combined two types of carbon materials to create a new composite sulfur cathode material for a high-energy and high-power lithium-sulfur battery. As sulfur loading in the cathode increases from 50 wt% to 77 wt%, high capacities of 970, 914, and 613 mAh g ?1 1, and 5 C, respectively.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

(b) SEM image of the sulfur cathode infiltrated garnet textile electrode architecture; (c) EDX elemental mapping of the sulfur/carbon mixture loaded single garnet fiber; (d) charge–discharge profiles of the solid-state lithium-sulfur battery. The technology will have a wide-range of applications in commercial electronics.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Stellantis Ventures, the corporate venture fund of Stellantis, today announced its participation as a strategic investor in Tiamat, a France-based company that is developing and commercializing sodium-ion battery technology. Sodium-ion technology offers a lower cost per kilowatt-hour and is free of lithium and cobalt.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

gas, the first step in the commercial process of converting natural. lower cost than those available today, based on a friction. Lithium-Sulfur Batteries. innovative water-based, lithium-sulfur battery. Today, lithium-sulfur battery technology offers the lightest high-energy batteries.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

High-performance NMC cathode materials are currently available. MH-Air systems, the company says, offer a demonstrated specific energy of 200 Wh/kg and represent a more practical approach and earlier pathway to commercialization than Li-Air systems. Ovonic has 32 issued US patents for Li-ion cathode technology. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 12, 2012

The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The scientists found the nanofluids could be used in a system with an energy-storing potential approaching that of a lithium-ion battery and with the pumpable recharging of a flow battery. The prototype’s success encouraged several of the principal investigators to spin off a company, called Influit Energy , to commercialize the technology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

This approach avoids the common, less energy efficient “melt-down” method, which requires heating solid sulfur to form a liquid that permeates non-homogeneously into an available porous substrate. Click to enlarge. Coulombic efficiency is greater than 96% for 100 cycles. Dysart, Juan C. Balbuena, Partha P. Mukherjee, and Vilas G.

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DECEMBER 21, 2015

Balsara and DeSimone have also co-founded a startup company called Blue Current, which aims to commercialize a perfluoropolyether-based nonflammable electrolyte they developed together (described in a 2014 PNAS paper, Wong et al. earlier post ). —Nitash Balsara.

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