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A lithium-sulfur cell. Sion Power Corporation has received a three-year, $800,000 research grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to support Sion’s ongoing work to develop a new class of electrolytes used in lithiumsulfur (Li-S) batteries for electric vehicle (EV) applications. Lithium-sulfurbatteries.
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that start-up lithium-sulfurbattery company NOHMs (Nano Organic Hybrid Materials) Technologies Inc. has selected to locate its research, manufacturing and product development facility for military, cell phone and electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries in Lexington.
Scientists from the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, have developed a novel silica-based cathode for lithium–sulfurbatteries, thereby enabling the realization of batteries that can last for more than 2,000 charge/discharge cycles. However, using sulfur in batteries is tricky for two reasons.
Although rechargeablelithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries promise high energy density storage—particularly attractive for electric vehicle applications—the technology is currently limited by the shuttling polysulfides between the battery’s electrodes. of its capacity after 40 hours. Shruti Suriyakumar, A.
USC Viterbi School of Engineering professor Chongwu Zhou and his research team have developed a silicon nanoparticle anode and a sulfur-based cathode with low fabrication cost and high electrode performance for rechargeablelithium-sulfurbatteries. sulfur (Li?S) S) battery cathodes.
enables the direct use of commercially available bulk Li 2 S particles as high-capacity cathode materials for rechargeable Li?S S batteries, without intricate synthesis or application of a high charging cut-off voltage that deteriorates the electrolyte stability and safety. S batteries with a Li S cathode. S batteries.
A team from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Tsinghua University (China) have synthesized graphene oxide-sulfur (GO-S) nanocomposite cathodes and applied them in lithium/sulfur cells to show a high reversible capacity of 950-1400 mAh g -1 and stable cycling for more than 50 deep cycles at 0.1C (1C = 1675 mA g -1 ).
Lithium-chalcogen batteries—e.g., lithium-sulfur (Li-S) and lithium selenium (Li-Se) systems— are promising candidates for high energy electrical storage solution. However, in order to achieve competitive energy density compared to current Li-ion batteries (i.e. > Scheme of SPC synthesis route.
Metallic lithium, with a high theoretical capacity of ~3,860 mAh g -1 , is one of the most promising materials for anodes in next-generation high energy rechargeablebattery systems for long-range electric vehicles. S batteries requires a reliable lithium metal anode. ”. Earlier post.) doi: 10.1021/cr500062v.
have signed an exclusive agreement licensing lithium-sulfur materials for next-generation batteries. Solid Power licensed a portfolio of ORNL patents relating to lithium-sulfur compositions that will enable development of more energy-dense batteries. of Louisville, Colo., Earlier post.).
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have advanced lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery research by creating a redox-active interlayer within the battery that adds energy storage capacity while nearly eliminating a traditional problem with sulfurbatteries. —Lee et al.
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated in the laboratory a lithium-sulfur (Li/S) battery that has more than twice the specific energy of lithium-ion batteries, and that lasts for more than 1,500 cycles of charge-discharge with minimal decay of the battery’s capacity.
BASF has invested $50 million to acquire an equity ownership position in privately held Sion Power, the leading developer of rechargeablelithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. More than 600 Wh/kg in specific energy and 600 Wh/l in energy density are achievable in the near future, according to the company. Earlier post.).
Sion Power, a developer of high-energy, lithium-metal rechargeablebatteries, said that its Licerion EV technology will have energy capacities of 420 Wh/kg and 700 Wh/L when scaled to commercial design. Though battery experts know fast charging is not ideal for battery longevity, the market demands this as an option.
Numbers in parentheses are the specific energy of a battery made of the cathode and a silicon anode with a specific capacity of 2000 mAh/g and potential of 0.45 Yi Cui, has developed a simple and scalable approach to utilizing Li 2 S (lithium sulfide) as the cathode material for rechargeablelithium-ion batteries with high specific energy.
Sion Power Corporation and BASF SE have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to accelerate the commercialization of Sion Power’s proprietary lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery technology for the electric vehicle (EV) market and other high-energy applications. Tags: Batteries. Click to enlarge. IBA-HBC 2006.
Safran acquired an equity interest in Li-Sulfurbattery manufacturer OXIS Energy ( earlier post ) through its Safran Corporate Ventures subsidiary, which invests in disruptive technology businesses. First, Safran and OXIS will cooperate on high energy density battery cells for the aviation industry. Source: OXIS Energy.
Sion Power announced that its proprietary lithiumsulfur (Li-S) batteries played a critical role in the Airbus Defence and Space Zephyr 7 prototype High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) aircraft completing a southern hemisphere winter weather flight of more than 11 days duration controlled by satellite communications.
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfurbattery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies. The ORNL battery design also addresses flammability concerns experienced by other chemistries. Earlier post.).
The new battery combines a Li 2 S/mesoporous carbon composite cathode and a silicon nanowire anode. Yi Cui at Stanford University have demonstrated a new proof-of-concept lithium metal-free battery with high specific energy consisting of a lithium sulfide (Li 2 S)/mesoporous carbon composite cathode and a silicon (Si) nanowire anode.
Lithium-sulfurbattery company Sion Power recently reported to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it raised $50 million in equity sold to undisclosed investors. Lithium-SulfurBatteries. Lithium-Sulfurbatteries (LSBs) use a lithium metal anode and a soluble polysulfide cathode.
Sion Power Corporation has received a three-year research grant worth up to $5 million from the United States Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) ( earlier post ) for the development of practical, economical and safe lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries for powering electric vehicles.
One of the major issues hobbling the commercialization of high energy-density lithium-sulfurbatteries is the “polysulfide shuttle”—the shuttling of polysulfide ions between the cathode and anode. Top: Schematic of the electrochemical processes in a generic lithium-sulfurbattery. —Sri Narayan.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, led by Professor Arumugam Manthiram, have demonstrated that lithiated graphite can serve as a lithium donor in lithium-deficient cathodes used, for example, in high energy density lithium-sulfur chemistry batteries. S batteries. organic batteries as well.
are proposing a new sealed rechargeablebattery system operating on a redox reaction between an oxide (O 2- ) and a peroxide (O 2 2- ) in the cathode. As described in a paper in the Nature open access journal Scientific Reports , the proposed battery system would have a theoretical specific energy of 2,570?Wh Batteries'
PolyPlus Battery Company a privately-held company focused on the development of the first rechargeable Li metal battery with a ionically conductive glass separator, has entered into the first stage of a joint development agreement with SK Innovation Co. Korea’s first and largest energy and chemical company.
Australia-based Li-S Energy has entered into an agreement with Janus Electric to develop and to test lithiumsulfur and/or lithium-metal battery cells to suit the requirements of the Janus Electric exchangeable prime mover battery packs. Janus can convert all prime mover makes and models to electric power.
BASF will acquire the electrolytes business for high-performance batteries from chemical and pharmaceutical company Merck. Merck has more than 10 years experience in the production of electrolytes for Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors. The companies have agreed not to disclose financial details of the transaction. Earlier post.)
Schematic of hybrid anode placed in a Li–S battery. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have designed a lithium–sulfurbattery using electrically connected graphite and lithium metal as a hybrid anode to control undesirable surface reactions on lithium.
UK-based OXIS Energy and Multi Source Power technologies ( MSP ) have formed a partnership to develop Li-sulfurbatteries for marine applications. The partners will launch the new battery in the spring of 2015. has 19 families of patents on the Lithiumsulfur technology, with 57 patents granted and another 44 pending.
Decoupled structural batteries outperform coupled versions. Cell-level specific-energy values versus corresponding elastic moduli of reported structural batteries, numbered by their references. The team performed a meta-analysis on reported structural batteries to develop their findings. Hopkins et al. —Hopkins et al.
Researchers in China are proposing a new strategy for addressing some of the issues limiting the commercialization of high energy density lithium-sulfurbatteries ( earlier post ): using small sulfur allotropes (different forms of the same element)—i.e., sulfurbatteries, such as Li?S, S batteries.
High Energy Density and Long-Life Li-S Batteries for Aerospace Applications, submitted by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Advanced High Energy RechargeableLithium-SulfurBatteries, submitted by Indiana University in Bloomington. Batteries'
In a paper published in the ACS journal Nano Letters , they suggest that this material represents a promising cathode material for rechargeable Li-ion batteries with high energy density. Sulfur also possesses other advantages such as low cost and environmental benignity. Earlier post.) Nevertheless, Wang et al.
V in lithium-metal batteries (LMBs). In a paper in the journal Nature Energy , the MIT team reports that a lithium-metal battery with the electrolyte delivers a specific capacity of >230?mAh?g V lithium-metal battery can retain >88% capacity for 90 cycles. O 2 cathode with a cut-off voltage up to 4.7?V
A team of researchers in China has devised a simple and mass-produceable method to modify a Li metal anode to avoid the formation of an unstable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) and the subsequent growth of Li dendrites in high-energy-density Li-S batteries. A paper on their work is published in the journal Energy Storage Materials.
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-sulfurbattery that achieved an initial specific capacity of 1,030?mAh?g This is the highest performing sulfur cathode in the world, as far as we know.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have used two-dimensional (2D) MoS 2 (molybdenum disulfide) as a protective layer for Li-metal anodes, greatly improving the performances of Li–S batteries. This approach, they suggested, could lead to the realization of high energy density and safe Li-metal-based batteries. Chae et al.
The working concept of I3 – /I – redox reaction in the aqueous Li-I 2 battery. A team from Japan’s RIKEN, led by Hye Ryung Byon, has developed a lithium-iodine (Li-I 2 ) battery system with a significantly higher energy density than conventional lithium-ion batteries. Zhao et al. Click to enlarge.
ARPA-E’s RANGE program seeks to improve EV driving range and reduce vehicle costs by re-envisioning the total EV battery system, rather than working to increase the energy density of individual battery cells. Advanced Aqueous Lithium-Ion Batteries. Air Battery. Long-Life Rechargeable Alkaline Battery for EVs.
Vasant Kumar at the University of Cambridge and Professor Renjie Chen at the Beijing Institute of Technology has devised a three-dimensional hierarchical sandwich-type graphene sheet-sulfur/carbon (GS-S/C ZIF8-D ) composite to address performance-related issues in Lithium-sulfurbatteries such as low efficiency and capacity degradation.
Sion Power’s proprietary lithiumsulfur (Li-S) batteries ( earlier post ) played a critical role in the QinetiQ Zephyr smashing the world record for the longest duration unmanned flight. The Zephyr, a solar/battery powered all electric UAV with a wing span of 70 feet (22.5 m) and a weight of just over 110 lbs. (50
Researchers at France-based battery major Saft, along with colleagues at Université Paris Est, have, for the first time, used a nanocomposite metal hydride as the anode in a complete solid-state battery with a sulfur cathode and LiBH 4 electrolyte. A paper on their development is published in the Journal of Power Sources.
Li-sulfurbattery developer OXIS Energy UK ( earlier post ) and Lithium Balance of Denmark are partnering to build a prototype Lithium-sulfurbattery system primarily for the e-scooter market in China. The current prototype battery has a capacity of 1.2 —Lars Barkler,Lithium Balance CEO.
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