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JANUARY 31, 2022

Penn State researchers have proposed cold sintering as an improved method of solid-state battery production that enables multi-material integration for better batteries. This prevents fire-causing short circuits, but also in theory it enables solid-state batteries to have higher energy density. —Zane Grady, lead author.

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JULY 29, 2021

UKRI announced a further investment of £10 million (US$14 million) from the Faraday Battery Challenge to support collaborative R&D projects co-funded by industry and managed by Innovate UK on behalf of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Ragone plot of an NCCF-Acid/Na cathode together with two other representative Na-ion battery cathodes and lithium batteries. Sodium-ion intercalation batteries—i.e., Thus, insertion/deinsertion of sodium ions in a host material is much more difficult than that of lithium ions, the researchers note.

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JUNE 14, 2012

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed hollow carbon nanowires (HCNWs) for use as anode material for Na-ion batteries. This novel carbon nanostructure also displayed reversible capacity of more than 200 mAh g ?1 They investigated sodium ion insertion?extraction C), 125 (0.5 1 was observed.

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MAY 3, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $45 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002760 ) to support the domestic development of advanced batteries for electric vehicles. Advanced batteries capable of safe, rapid charging are necessary to appeal to these Americans who are unable to charge cars at home for long periods of time.

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MAY 15, 2015

E-bike powered by Faradion prototype Na-ion battery pack. British battery R&D company Faradion has demonstrated a proof-of-concept electric bike powered by sodium-ion batteries at the headquarters of Williams Advanced Engineering, which collaborated in the development of the bike. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Conventional processes for manufacturing battery electrodes involve mostly toxic solvents and require a lot of space and energy. DRYtraec thus is a promising solution developed by an interdisciplinary research team at Fraunhofer IWS in Dresden that focuses on the production of the battery electrodes. —Benjamin Schumm.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

After a project with an annual output of 50,000 tons of lithium hydroxide is put into operation, the total designed capacity of battery-grade lithium hydroxide in the plant will reach 81,000 tons; it can also produce 15,000 tons of lithium carbonate, 12,000 tons of lithium chloride and other compound products each year.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. —Stuart Licht. —Licht et al.

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MARCH 5, 2023

In order to enable fast-charging ability in batteries, researchers have attempted to enhance the mass transfer of electrolytes and charge transfer in electrodes, with extensive research carried out on the former compared to the latter. It is an undesired process leading to reduced battery life and limiting fast charge capability.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Researchers within the RS2E network on electrochemical energy storage (Réseau sur le stockage électrochimique de l’énergie) in France have developed the first sodium-ion battery in an 18650 format. The main advantage of the prototype is that it relies on sodium, an element far more abundant and less costly than lithium.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Researchers at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium have designed and synthesized a new class of electrically conducting anionic coordination polymers for all practically relevant alkali-cation storage. V in lithium-, sodium-, or potassium-based cells. V for Li-, Na- and K-ion batteries. Wang et al. —Wang et al.

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MAY 6, 2020

The study contemplates expanding the existing facility and adapting it to be North America’s first producer of cobalt sulfate, an essential component in the manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles. Sodium Treatment. —Trent Mell, First Cobalt President & CEO. Tailings Capacity, Phase 1. Capital Requirements. 56 million.

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MARCH 26, 2023

Exceptionally high selectivity for lithium over other ions present in the brine (including sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and boron), meeting specifications for subsequent direct production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate, without the need to first produce lithium carbonate. g/L) and Ca (7.2 m3 per day.

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APRIL 1, 2011

Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. 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.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

A team of researchers from institutions in China and the US report the design of a negatively charged graphene composite separator for the effective suppression of the polysulfide shuttling effect in Li-sulfur batteries. Alternatively, “adsorption coatings” (e.g., Alternatively, “adsorption coatings” (e.g., —Lei et al.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Schematic illustration of the designed hybrid-seawater fuel cell and a schematic diagram at the charged–discharged state. As described in an open access paper in the journal NPG Asia Materials , the system is an intermediate between a battery and a fuel cell, and is accordingly referred to as a hybrid fuel cell. Click to enlarge.

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

From how much they cost and weigh to the amount of power they store and how long they take to charge, electric vehicle (EV) batteries have a significant impact on EVs themselves, the EV industry as a whole, and ultimately EV buyers. Anodes are most commonly made of graphite.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

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. The chemistry and process may enable the replacement of smelters for processing sulfide minerals.

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JUNE 2, 2020

Although O3-layered metal oxides are promising cathode materials for high-energy Na-ion batteries, they suffer from fast capacity fade. O 2 –hard carbon full-cells with practical loading (>2.5 Interface stability, particularly the structural and chemical stability, has been known to be essential for battery performance.

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MARCH 9, 2011

For batteries, these functional material pastes would be the electrode active materials. While the solar cell application has a near-term sales opportunity, commercial application of the technology to battery electrodes is probably 2-3 years out, Elrod noted. Carbon-neutral liquid fuel. Electrodes.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Mellon College of Science and College of Engineering have developed a semiliquid lithium metal-based anode (SLMA) that represents a new paradigm in battery design for solid electrolyte batteries. —Li et al. —Jay Whitacre.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

A major barrier to the use of high energy capacity silicon in a lithium-ion battery is the volumetric expansion of silicon under lithiation and delithiation, which results in electrode degradation and capacity fade. Using this technique will help make battery design much more systematic, and less trial and error. Earlier post.)

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MAY 5, 2016

A new study by a team from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering has found that even large increases in lithium prices are unlikely to increase significantly the cost of batteries or battery packs for end users such as vehicle manufactures or consumers—although some manufacturers may see reduced profit margins.

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MAY 28, 2014

Overview of the three vehicle classes identified in the study, and their corresponding battery technologies. Their low cost and ability to start the engine at cold temperatures sets them apart in conventional and basic micro-hybrid vehicles, and as auxiliary batteries in all other automotive applications, according to the report.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

In a review paper in the journal Nature Materials , Jean-Marie Tarascon (Professor at College de France and Director of RS2E, French Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage) and Clare Gray (Professor at the University of Cambridge), call for integrating the sustainability of battery materials into the R&D efforts to improve rechargeable batteries.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Researchers at Stanford University and SLAC led by Stanford associate professor Yi Cui have used a sulfur–TiO 2 yolk–shell design for a cathode material for a lithium-sulfur battery that achieved an initial specific capacity of 1,030?mAh?g Click to enlarge. C and Coulombic efficiency of 98.4% over 1,000 cycles. —Seh et al.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

The Chinese-built BYD eBuses will run on the CentreLink and EcoLink routes which have been designed to cut the amount of traffic entering the city centre. The vehicle regenerates braking energy as electricity, increasing battery life. The i2e bus has a very low carbon footprint of 8.45 passenger-kilometer.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And today, technology is maturing to the point that meaningful amounts of these energy giveaways can be harvested to liberate wearables from ever needing a battery. There are, researchers have discovered, a wide range of options to harvest enough microwatts to replace wearables’ batteries. Batteries die before animals do.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2013

As a component of electric-vehicle batteries, lithium is in high demand worldwide and an important tool for the cleantech sector. The technology being developed in this project has the potential to reduce total EV battery costs, thereby increasing the rate of EV up-take.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The rise in global demand for lithium—spurred mainly by the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles—has triggered expanded mining of the world’s known major caches of lithium. The area, said to be the driest region on earth, has long been a premier source of sodium nitrate, or saltpeter. John Moore/Getty Images.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

As she drives her electric vehicle to her mother’s house, Monique’s battery gauge indicates that it’s time to reenergize. The battery in her EV is a variation on the flow battery , a design in which spent electrolyte is replaced rather than recharged. A battery that mitigates these problems is DARPA’s objective.

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MARCH 30, 2016

This Phase 4 testing program was designed to show viability of Zenyatta’s Albany graphite compared to synthetic graphite under realistic fuel cell operating conditions. From an environmental and cost advantage, the Ballard report also concluded: Zenyatta graphite provides a clean carbon option for fuel cell components (i.e.

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OCTOBER 16, 2022

Researchers in China have designed a high-performance Janus electrode—i.e., containing both cathode and anode properties in the same body—for sodium-sulfur (Na-S) batteries by adopting a metal-organic framework (MOF) to incorporate single Yttrium atoms in a nitrogen-doped rhombododecahedron carbon host (Y SAs/NC).

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems. The project will be designed with an innovative smart grid control system to improve grid reliability and enable the integration of wind and other intermittent renewable energy sources. 29,561,142.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

For EVs to deliver their full emission-reducing potential, the battery supply chain must be as clean as possible, and cathode active materials (CAM) are a key part of the sustainability equation. Automakers have high hopes for solid-state batteries, mainly because of their improved safety characteristics.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Graphite is a pure form of carbon. There are three main forms of graphite: spherical graphite is used in non-EV battery applications, whereas EV batteries use a blend of coated spherical graphite and synthetic graphite. Graphite is the critical component of all current anode designs. The anode side is not that remarkable.

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