Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Balsara at UC Berkeley, have identified a new class of nonflammable electrolytes based on functionalized perfluoropolyethers (PFPEs) for lithium-ion batteries. —Dominica Wong, lead author. There is a big demand for these [Li-ion] batteries and a huge demand to make them safer. earlier post.). —Prof. Joseph DeSimone.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) battery scientist Nitash Balsara and co-inventor Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have launched Blue Current , a startup company backed by investment firm Faster LLC, to commercialize their non-flammable electrolytes for Li-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Described in a paper (“Compliant Glass-Polymer Hybrid Single-Ion-Conducting Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries”) to be published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the highly conductive hybrid electrolyte combines the two primary types of solid electrolytes: polymer and glass. Dominica H.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Explore the corridors and batteries of the Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas , a Spanish 17th-century military fortress atop San Lzaro Hill (admission 36,000 pesos, or about $8). Two-hour free walking tours offered by Free Tour Cartagena (dont forget to tip your guide) provide an overview of the citys main plazas and landmark churches.

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