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DECEMBER 20, 2019

As the lithium-ion batteries that currently power most phones, laptops, and electric vehicles become increasingly fast-charging and high-performing, they also grow increasingly expensive and flammable. Moreover, the battery could be cycled at high rates; increasing the charge/discharge rate by an order of magnitude (0.5C–5C)

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MARCH 19, 2014

The nanocrystals possess high and similar Li-ion and Na-ion charge storage capacities of 580?640 85% of the low-rate value, indicating that rate capability of Sb nanostructures can be comparable to the best Li-ion intercalation anodes and is so far unprecedented for Na-ion storage. 640 mAh g ?1

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Wood for her outstanding research results in the area of lithium-ion batteries. Particle shape and fabrication-induced alignment can cause tortuosity anisotropy, which can impact battery performance. Among her other research areas, Dr. Wood has analyzed how the microstructure of electrodes influences the efficiency of batteries.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

However, silicon nanomaterials come with certain demerits, such as a large demand and supply gap, difficult and expensive synthesis process, and, most important, a threat of fast battery dry-up. Over the years scientists have developed various advanced silicon-based negative electrodes or anode materials to overcome these problems.

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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.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

John Goodenough, known around the world for his pioneering work that led to the invention of the rechargeable lithium-ion battery, have devised a new strategy for a safe, low-cost, all-solid-state rechargeable sodium or lithium battery cell that has the required energy density and cycle life for a battery that powers an all-electric road vehicle.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

nm, average) of iron pyrite (FeS 2 ) nanoparticles are advantageous to sustain reversible conversion reactions in sodium ion and lithium ion batteries. FeS 2 is particularly attractive for energy storage technology due to its earth abundance, low toxicity, and low raw material cost. … nanometers in size.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stanford researchers have developed a sodium-ion battery (SIB) that can store the same amount of energy as a state-of-the-art lithium ion, at substantially lower cost. Crucial to the idea of lowering the cost of battery materials, myo-inositol is an abundant organic compound familiar to industry.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Stealth-mode battery start-up 24M has introduced its new semi-solid lithium-ion cell. Together, our inventions achieve what lithium-ion has yet to do—meet the ultra-low cost targets of the grid and transportation industries. By 2020 our battery costs will be less than $100 a kilowatt-hour (kWh).

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

As part of its new IONICS (Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion Conducting Solids) program awards ( earlier post ), the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded $3.5 24M cell compared to conventional Li-ion cell. Those inactive materials are expensive and wasteful.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Natron Energy, a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has ( earlier post ), has been awarded a $3-million grant by the California Energy Commission (CEC) for “Advanced Energy Storage for Electric Vehicle Charging Support.”

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

For decades, scientists have been hunting for new electrode materials and electrolytes that can produce a new generation of lithium-ion batteries offering much greater energy storage while lasting longer, costing less and being safer. Increasing silicon’s attractiveness commercially is its low cost. Trask, Saul H.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

A team of scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed new polyfluorene-based conductive polymers that address the long-standing issue of volumetric change in high-capacity silicon (Si) anodes for Li-ion batteries. to determine their key electronic properties.

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APRIL 6, 2015

A team at Stanford University, led by professor Hongjie Dai, has developed a high-performance, safe, fast-charging aluminum-ion battery that can last for thousands of cycles. The Al-ion battery—comprising an aluminum anode, graphite cathode and ionic liquid electrolyte—produces about half the voltage of a Li-ion battery.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Schematic of hybrid anode placed in a Li–S battery. The graphite/Li connected in parallel forms a shorted cell where the graphite is always lithiated at equilibrium and maintains a pseudo-equal potential with the Li metal. Among these technologies, Li–sulphur (Li–S) batteries hold great promise.

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MAY 26, 2011

Scheme of the semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) system using flowing lithium-ion cathode and anode suspensions. In contrast to previous flow batteries, the SSFC stores energy in suspensions of solid storage compounds to and from which charge transfer is accomplished via dilute yet percolating networks of nanoscale conductors.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2012

The project aims at demonstrating power supply stabilization in the region by introducing cargo container-type large capacity energy storage system using a lithium-ion rechargeable battery, which has a maximum power output capacity of 2MW. Each battery container houses more than 2,000 units of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

University of Sydney team advances rechargeable zinc-air batteries with bimetallic oxide–graphene hybrid electrocatalyst. Zinc-air batteries are powered by zinc metal and oxygen from the air. Zinc-air batteries are powered by zinc metal and oxygen from the air. They can then be applied to build rechargeable zinc-air batteries.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Carbon is seen as an attractive potential cathode material for aprotic (non-aqueous) Lithium-air batteries, which are themselves of great interest for applications such as in electric vehicles because of the cells’ high theoretical specific energy. Given the role of carbon as a possible porous positive electrode for nonaqueous Li?O

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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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Stanford University scientists have identified a new solid-state Li-ion electrolyte predicted to exhibit simultaneously fast ionic conductivity, wide electrochemical stability, low cost, and low mass density. sulfur (Li?B?S) 1 in Li 5 B 7 S 13 and 80 (?56, 1 in Li 9 B 19 S 33. 41) mS cm ?1

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APRIL 30, 2010

The second round was focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels (electrofuels); much higher capacity and less expensive batteries for electric vehicles; and carbon capture. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

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. Sodium can serve as an alternative to lithium in rechargeable batteries as the reversible storage mechanisms for sodium ions are very similar (e.g.,

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JANUARY 18, 2014

VTO is seeking projects that address the major challenges to developing and commercializing batteries for plug?in As described in multiple DOE reports, the main barriers to widespread PEV commercialization are the cost; performance and life; and abuse tolerance of high?energy energy batteries. energy storing) materials.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

The successful market implementation of these materials in vehicles requires that they be low cost and available in sufficient abundance to make a compelling business case. For this reason the focus of this AOI includes the development of low-cost approaches to the manufacturing of both magnesium and carbon fiber.

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MARCH 28, 2015

However, transition metal fluorides, which contain the element fluorine plus one or more of the transition metals, such as iron and copper, have much higher ion-storage capacities than traditional cathodes. The lithium ions then bond temporarily to the fluorine atoms. In addition, a recent study of the ?

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MARCH 15, 2011

published in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , reviews in detail four stationary storage systems considered the most promising candidates for electrochemical energy storage: vanadium redox flow; sodium-beta alumina membrane; lithium-ion; and lead-carbon batteries. In their study, Yang et al. The need for storage. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 29, 2016

Austrian manufacturer of high-performance batteries Kreisel Electric ( earlier post ) has introduced the MAVERO home energy storage system. The Li-ion battery packs are available in four different sizes, with usable capacity ranging from 8 kWh to 22 kWh. First deliveries are planned for early 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $37 million in funding for 16 innovative new projects as part of a new ARPA-E program: Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion-Conducting Solids ( IONICS ). Li-ion conductors that enable the cycling of Li metal without shorting.

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JULY 3, 2011

Researchers at the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences have shown that nitrogen- or boron-doped graphene can be used as an anode material for high-power and high-energy lithium-ion batteries under high-rate charge and discharge conditions. These results, Wu et al.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Stanford University scientists have proposed a design strategy for electrolytes that enable anode-free Li metal batteries with single-solvent single-salt formations at standard concentrations. A lithium metal battery can hold about twice as much electricity per kilogram as today’s conventional lithium-ion battery.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Canadian team proposes new propane phase-change thermal management system for hybrid electric battery packs Researchers at the Clean Energy Research Laboratory, University of Ontario Institute of Technology are proposing a new propane phase-change thermal management system for hybrid electric vehicles that use propane as the fuel for the engine.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2016

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million in funding for a new program focused on creating innovative components for the next generation of batteries, fuel cells, and other electrochemical devices. charging a battery).

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JUNE 24, 2015

PEV battery life cycle with second use. Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are identifying battery second use (B2U) strategies capable of offsetting vehicle expenses while improving utility grid stability. Source: NREL. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

economical to store or transport. sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. regenerated in a reactor, similar to a battery. If successful, the new crop would have a lower cost of. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline. Ceramatec’s design would allow for low-cost materials and.

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JUNE 25, 2012

The battery-electric NS-999, “under the long hood”. In April, Axion Power International Inc received an order from Norfolk Southern Corp (NS) for PbC lead-carbon batteries for use in an all-battery-powered switcher locomotive. To date, this is the largest single PbC battery order that Axion has received. PbC batteries.

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JANUARY 12, 2015

Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have combined in situ EDXRD with ex situ XRD and XAS measurements to visualize the formation of the conductive silver matrix within an Ag 2 VP 2 O 8 electrode used in a specialized medical battery. —Kirshenbaum et al.

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