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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Unifrax, a manufacturer of high-performance specialty materials, introduced its Battery Advisory Board, which will meet regularly to provide strategic guidance as Unifrax grows its battery portfolio and enters the silicon anode market with its new SiFAB Silicon Fiber Anode Battery Technology. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 17, 2021

Interest in higher energy-density batteries that pair alkali metal electrodes with solid electrolytes is high; however, such batteries have been plagued by a tendency for dendrites to form on one of the electrodes, eventually bridging the electrolyte and shorting out the battery cell.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Researchers at MIT and their colleagues are proposing a new design for electrodes that, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as the anode, could lead to longer-lived batteries with higher energy densities. The metal then shrinks again during discharge, as the battery is used.

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APRIL 4, 2017

Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials science discovery program launched by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). Provided over four years, the support to MIT researchers will be primarily directed at scientific discoveries and advancing energy storage. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 5, 2024

The stretchable battery is gaining momentum in the electronics industry, where it might one day serve as an energy storage medium in fitness trackers, wearable electronics, and even smart clothing. A battery that only flexes would feel uncomfortable to wear.” Pikul and others around the world are now working on batteries that stretch.

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DECEMBER 17, 2017

An international research team from Tsinghua University, MIT and Argonne National Laboratory has discovered a series of novel lithium titanate hydrates that show better electrochemical performances compared to all the Li 2 O–TiO 2 materials reported so far—including those after nanostructuring, doping and/or coating.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

A new metal mesh membrane developed by researchers at MIT could advance the use of the Na–NiCl 2 displacement battery, which has eluded widespread adoption owing to the fragility of the ?"-Al The results could make possible a whole family of inexpensive and durable materials practical for large-scale rechargeable batteries.

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MAY 22, 2014

Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed new battery technology for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 degrees Celsius. The new battery technology would take advantage of that temperature gradient at the industrial scale.

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APRIL 9, 2019

In a paper being presented at WCX SAE World Congress Experience in Detroit this week, a team from MIT is proposing the use of a flex-fuel gasoline-alcohol engine approach for a series-hybrid powertrain for long-haul Class 8 trucks. The research was supported by the MIT Arthur Samberg Energy Innovation Fund. and Bromberg, L.

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OCTOBER 17, 2014

In May, researchers at MIT and Stanford University reported the development of new battery technology for the conversion of low-temperature waste heat into electricity in cases where temperature differences are less than 100 ?Celsius. Batteries Waste Heat Recovery' discharging at low temperature. —Yang et al.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Although electrification has shown promise toward reducing the carbon footprint of passenger vehicles, aviation remains dependent on hydrocarbon fuels due to their high energy density relative to even the most advanced battery technologies available today.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

Conventional layered lithium and transition metal cathode material (top) and the new disordered material studied by researchers at MIT (bottom) as seen through a scanning tunneling electron microscope. Inset images show diagrams of the different structures in these materials. (In Image courtesy of the researchers. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 26, 2017

Toyota, which has been working on solid-state batteries for EVs for a number of years ( earlier post ), is in the news with a report by the Wall Street Journal that it will be ready to commercialize a solid-state battery by 2022. There has been incredible progress in the field of solid state electrolytes for Li ion batteries.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Photo: Kyoto University An MIT-led team revealed a “guidebook” for how to tune surface properties of perovskites, a silicon alternative – here’s why that’s huge for solar. Enter the new breakthrough paper from a team of researchers led by MIT, in collaboration with scientists from around the globe.

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JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough , one of the inventors of the lithium-ion battery, died on 25 June at age 100. Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. His ability to cross disciplines started at MIT. “At Nobel Laureate John B.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Among her achievements: She invented an inexpensive, battery-operated optical imaging system that can detect premalignant tissues—no biopsy required—to help prevent oral and cervical cancer. in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering. Once I discovered it, I found that I loved it.”

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Finding is a step on the way to solid-state batteries Two factors dominate the development of batteries for electric vehicles: [continued] The post Researchers Develop Promising Approach To Smaller, More Powerful, Safer Electric Vehicle Batteries appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

A team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University has developed a high-rate, high-capacity and long-lived anode for Li-ion batteries comprising a yolk-shell nanocomposite of aluminum core (30 nm in diameter) and TiO 2 shell (~3 nm in thickness), with a tunable interspace (Al@TiO 2 , or ATO). Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Source: MIT.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The recipients of the cooperative research grants are Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Chattanooga Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA), and Utah State University. The MIT project will conduct field experiments to demonstrate the mobility and energy efficiency impacts in Boston and Chicago.

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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) V versus Li/Li +. —Zhu et al.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

A team of MIT researchers lead by Prof. John Goodenough from the University of Texas as Austin, has found one of the most effective catalysts yet discovered for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) for use in water-splitting to produce hydrogen or in rechargeable metal-air batteries. rechargeable metal-air batteries (MxO 2 ?

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AUGUST 15, 2016

A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. Reed Faculty Initiatives Fund, and the MIT Energy Initiative. —Jessika Trancik.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

In return, LiFePO 4 +C Licensing AG receives rights to two recent battery material patents from A123. The A123 patents cross-licensed in this agreement are separate from the original Nanophosphate patents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which are not included as part of this settlement.

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

Researchers at MIT, working with partners at NASA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have developed a new concept for a “neutron microscope”—a compact focusing-mirror-based small-angle neutron scattering instrument—that would use neutrons instead of beams of light or electrons to create high-resolution images. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 27, 2014

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a safe, extended cycling lithium-metal electrode for rechargeable Li-ion batteries by entrapping lithium metal within a porous graphene network (Li-PGN). This in turn significantly limits the rate capability of such batteries. Batteries' Mukherjee et al. Background.

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JULY 27, 2016

Ford Motor Company and MIT are collaborating on a new research project that measures how pedestrians move in urban areas to improve certain public transportation services, such as ride-hailing and point-to-point shuttles services. The MIT research is being conducted by the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department’s Aerospace Controls Lab.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Researchers at MIT have shown that a MOF (metal-organic framework) with high electrical conductivity—Ni 3 (2,3,6,7,10,11-hexaiminotriphenylene) 2 (Ni 3 (HITP) 2 )—can serve as the sole electrode material in a supercapacitor. The supercapacitor field was (but will not be anymore) dominated by activated carbons.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

The discovery, which may result in better batteries, catalysts, electronic information storage and processing devices, is reported in a paper published in the RSC journal Nanoscale. Batteries Catalysts Materials Nanotech' I always say that in basic science we are discovering the alphabet. doi: 10.1039/C3NR02343E.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

million in funding to a team that includes 24M, Sepion Technologies , Berkeley Lab, and Carnegie Mellon University. The funds will be used to develop novel membranes and lithium-metal anodes for the next generation of high-energy-density, low-cost batteries. The materials design enables up to 5x the area capacity of standard Li-ion.

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JUNE 10, 2016

The Materials Project, a Google-like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation ( earlier post ), has released an enormous trove of data to the public, giving scientists working on batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and other advanced materials a powerful tool to explore new avenues of research.

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MAY 28, 2015

Chemists at the University of Waterloo have identified the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries. Understanding how sodium-oxygen batteries work has implications for developing the more powerful lithium-oxygen battery, which has been proposed by some as the “holy grail” of electrochemical energy storage.

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AUGUST 1, 2009

Panasonic Corporation is supporting the Solar Electric Vehicle Team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT SEVT), in its participation of the Global Green Challenge (GGC), to be held in October 2009 in Australia. Under the sponsorship agreement, Panasonic is providing the MIT SEVT team with its 2.9

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

X-ray microscope snapshot of nanoparticles in a battery midway through charging. A new study has found that rapid-charging a lithium-ion battery and using it to do high-power, rapidly draining work may not be as damaging as researchers had thought, and that the benefits of slow draining and charging may have been overestimated.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Scientists have also already successfully applied this tool for prediction and discovery of materials used for clean energy technologies, including lithium-ion batteries, hydrogen storage, thermoelectrics, electrodes for fuel cells, and photovoltaics.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. Currently battery costs for an electric vehicle are about $325 per kWh.

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