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OCTOBER 3, 2016

Sion Power reported that a Licerion-Ion system has achieved 400 Wh/kg, 700 Wh/L and 350 cycles under 1C discharge conditions. Sion combines its protected lithium anodes with intercalated metal oxide cathodes typically used for Li-ion batteries (Licerion-Ion) and with advanced sulfur cathodes (Licerion-Sulfur).

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JULY 27, 2021

Titan Advanced Energy Solutions (Titan), focused on using ultrasound technology to help make batteries run better, safer, and longer, received nearly $1.1 million in Phase II SBIR funding from the US DOE ( earlier post ) to develop an early warning system that detects hazardous conditions in lithium-ion batteries.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Top: The stress of repeated swelling and shrinking shatters a conventional silicon electrode and its polymer binding. Bottom: An electrode coated with stretchy, self-healing polymer remains intact. (C. 1 for Li 15 Si 4 at room temperature)—almost ten times that of commercialized graphite anodes. Wang et al.,

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MAY 21, 2016

Prieto Battery, a company commercializing a 3D Lithium-ion battery technology ( earlier post ), announced a strategic investment from Stanley Ventures, the newly-formed venture arm of Stanley Black & Decker, a world-leading provider of tools and storage, commercial electronic security and engineered fastening systems.

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APRIL 12, 2020

m in thickness) for Li-metal batteries, which can be mass-produced at room temperature. The mechanical robustness and operability of the flexible LLZO composite sheet at a wide range of temperatures makes it a promising electrolyte for Li-metal batteries. Li 2 S-P 2 S 5 and Li 10 GeP 2 S 12 ), ceramic oxides (e.g., (La,Li)NbO

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding a combined $2.8 Earlier post.) Of that, $1.6 Materials Separation & Processing (Cathode Minerals).

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JUNE 23, 2021

A new report from IDTechEX forecasts the solid-state battery market will grow to $8 billion by 2031. Under most of the mass-production plans, the solid-state battery will likely take off after 2025, although small-scale production may happen even earlier, IDTechEX said. Major solid-state battery players globally.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Lithium-metal rechargeable battery developer Sion Power will introduce its Licerion rechargeable battery for electric vehicles at The Battery Show North America in Novi, Michigan in September. The cells do use a liquid electrolyte; however, the amount is negligible compared to traditional Li-ion cells.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Solvay Ventures, the venture capital fund of Solvay, invested in Sepion, a California-based start-up that specializes in advanced membranes for batteries with Li-metal anodes and liquid electrolytes. Sepion raised funds to accelerate commercialization of lithium metal batteries for long-range and low-cost electric vehicles.

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MAY 1, 2018

Researchers at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering in China have developed new hybrid electrolytes to support high-voltage Li-ion batteries (e.g., ~5 O 4 /Li batteries are improved by using the hybrid electrolytes. O 4 /Li batteries are improved by using the hybrid electrolytes.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A team at Penn State has developed a three-dimensional, cross-linked polyethylenimine lithium-ion-affinity sponge as the lithium metal anode host to mitigate the problem of dendritic growth of the metal anode. —Li et al. at a commercial-level areal capacity. A paper on their work is published in Nature Energy.

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MAY 30, 2021

Researchers in the European AMAPOLA (A Marketable Polymer based Al-S battery) project are analyzing the combination of sulfur and aluminum in a battery; both elements are abundant in the earth’s crust.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Balsara at UC Berkeley, have identified a new class of nonflammable electrolytes based on functionalized perfluoropolyethers (PFPEs) for lithium-ion batteries. In addition to being nonflammable, PFPE exhibits very interesting properties such as its ion transport. earlier post.). —Prof. Joseph DeSimone.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, and Japanese specialist chemical manufacturer, Piotrek , are partnering to commercialize Australian-developed battery technologies globally within the next five years. RAFT is a form of controlled free radical polymerization that enables the design of polymers with enhanced properties.

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MARCH 10, 2021

A new fabrication technique could allow all-solid-state automotive lithium-ion batteries (ASSLBs) to adopt nonflammable ceramic electrolytes using the same production processes as in batteries made with conventional liquid electrolytes. O 2 cathodes and both Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 and graphite anodes.

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JUNE 26, 2021

Kynar CTO PVDF grades using the mass balance approach under the ISCC+ certification process will be produced first in Arkema’s Pierre-Bénite plant in France for its European customers, focusing initially on grades specifically targeted for the lithium-ion battery market. These grades are expected to be commercialized by mid-2022.

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APRIL 3, 2021

Hercules vehicles will offer integrated solar charging, long-range batteries and optional fuel-cell range-extender options. Hercules is commencing the Series A financing to support product development and add team members; the company currently is scouting locations for production of its components, including solid-state batteries.

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MAY 16, 2012

The Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shougang Group have developed a pilot production line with a capacity of 300,000 m 2 per year of electrospun nanofibers for lithium battery (LIB). Electrospinning is a process that uses a strong electrical field to draw a polymer fluid into fine filaments.

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MAY 8, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Forge Nano to commercialize NREL’s patented battery materials and systems capable of operating safely in high-stress environments. —Paul Lichty, CEO of Forge Nano. King, Lamuel A. David, Athena S.

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JULY 24, 2017

Researchers in Sweden and Italy have devised a simple strategy to address the issues currently hampering commercialization of high-energy density Li-sulfure batteries, including. The challenges with an increased energy density and reduced cost of secondary batteries can only be tackled by new battery chemistries.

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JANUARY 12, 2018

a leading provider of sensing, modeling/simulation, and control products, has introduced CellMod , the first Li-Ion battery simulation tool that can predict cell and pack behavior with a percentage of error of less than 5% under a wide range of test conditions. Sendyne Corp., All unique CellMod versions are created under NDA.

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APRIL 30, 2022

In 2021, Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) launched a call for proposals to support R&D projects for zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) manufacturing, systems, components, and batteries in Canada. The selected projects are: Advanced Manufacturing Process Innovations – Flex-Ion Battery Innovation Center. Lead: Ventra Group Co.;

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JULY 7, 2016

Silatronix, a developer of unique organosilicon (OS) electrolytes for use in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) ( earlier post ), has raised US$8 million in new equity capital, and secured partnerships for distribution and joint technological development. Current Li-ion electrolytes are unstable above 60 °C and at charge voltages above 4.3

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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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JANUARY 13, 2021

Three of the projects (Sila, 24M and Ionic Materials) are scaling up advanced battery technologies for EVs and aviation, and account for $27 million of the $47 million tranche. Over the last decade, the cost of lithium-ion (Li-ion) energy storage systems has fallen while energy density has improved steadily. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Opportunities exist for the chemist to bring together oxide and polymer or graphene chemistry in imaginative morphologies. ”.a

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JUNE 1, 2014

As part of a four-year DOE-funded project, researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, working with FMC Corporation, have developed a novel polymer binder and solvent system facilitating the use of FMC’s unique Stabilized Lithium Metal Powder (SLMP) as a performance-enhancing additive in Li-ion battery electrodes.

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MARCH 20, 2015

Stanford researchers led by Professor Yi Cui have used ceramic nanowire fillers to enhance the ionic conductivity of polymer-based solid electrolyte by three orders of magnitude. The ceramic-nanowire filled composite polymer electrolyte also shows an enlarged electrochemical stability window. Li 3 N and Li 1.3

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

At left, a traditional approach combines Si (blue spheres) with a polymer binder (light brown) plus carbon (dark brown spheres). At right, the new conductive polymer (purple) continues to bind tightly to the Si particles despite repeated swelling and shrinking. 1 in Si after 650 cycles without any conductive additive. —Gao Liu.

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APRIL 21, 2021

SVOLT Energy Technology, a global advanced technology company and spin-off of Chinese automobile manufacturer Great Wall Motors, is the first to begin commercialization of lithium-ion batteries (LIB) utilizing metallic thin-film separator technology from Soteria Battery Innovation Group (BIG).

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JULY 28, 2017

The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) is funding research into solid-state materials for improved batteries and fuel cells. Supported work includes crystalline and amorphous inorganics, and polymers manufactured with glass forming, blowing/extrusion, rolling/calendaring, tape casting, and vapor deposition.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Examples of prospective 3-D architectures for charge-insertion batteries, as proposed by Long et al. (a) proposed configuring charge insertion batteries (i.e., proposed configuring charge insertion batteries (i.e., In a 2004 paper in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , Long et al.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Scanning electron microscope image of polyethylene microcapsules spin coated onto Li-ion battery anode. These microcapsules are thermally triggered during thermal runaway conditions and infuse the anode shutting down ion transport and preventing lithium fires. Photo credit: Marta Baginska. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a gel-like electrolyte induced by fumed alumina for dendrite-free Li deposition, lower over-potential and better cycle stability in lithium-sulfur batteries. The growth of the Li dendrites not only decays the performance of batteries but also leads to potential safety hazard.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In a departure from its usual approach of supplying high-capacity prismatic Li-ion cells for automotive applications, Samsung SDI will supply cylindrical 18650 format Li-ion batteries for JAC Motors’ new electric SUV iEV6S, unveiled at the 2015 Guangzhou International Auto Parts & Accessories Exhibition.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

A team from Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has developed a new practical, high-energy-capacity lithium-ion battery anode out of silicon by encapsulating Si microparticles (∼1–3 µm) using conformally synthesized cages of multilayered graphene. Nature Energy ) Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

In … solid-state LIBs [lithium-ion batteries], one important component that needs to be improved to make it more suitable for high performance applications is the electrolyte material. Such solid composite electrolytes also have been previously shown to reduce lithium dendrite formation and proliferation in lithium metal batteries.

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