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Researchers identify new class of non-flammable electrolytes for Li-ion batteries

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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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Startup Blue Current seeking to commercialize non-flammable fluorinated electrolytes for Li-ion batteries

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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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New hybrid polymer-glass electrolyte for solid-state lithium batteries

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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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Affordable Winter Trips in the Caribbean

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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.