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AUGUST 14, 2020

UC Riverside (UCR) engineers have developed a way to recycle PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic waste, such as soda or water bottles, into a nanomaterial useful for energy storage. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Energy Storage. Mihri Ozkan & Cengiz Ozkan/UCR). —Professor Cengiz Ozkan.

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APRIL 15, 2012

A team of researchers from the US and China have developed novel polymer?graphene polymer with a stable skeleton and highly electroactive functional group can potentially be a high-power cathode candidate because its redox reaction intrinsically has faster kinetics than inorganic intercalation cathodes. Credit: ACS, Song et al.

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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. limited practical energy density, life time and the scaling-up of materials and production processes. —Agostini et al.

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JANUARY 24, 2014

EnerG2, a company manufacturing advanced nano-structured materials for next-generation energy storage, has introduced a carbon and silicon composite to boost lithium-ion battery capacity and power performance. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Our competitors are still working in the lab.

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MARCH 27, 2013

A chart from EnerG2’s 2012 DOE Merit Review presentation shows different pore profiles for different energy storage applications. Engineering surface area, pore size distribution, and total pore volume can deliver carbon material with a broad range of surface properties. Click to enlarge. Aaron Feaver.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

lithium-sulfur (Li-S) and lithium selenium (Li-Se) systems— are promising candidates for high energy electrical storage solution. Cell level calculations suggests that the hierarchical electrode architectures have the potential to increase the specific energy to more than 350?Wh?kg Scheme of SPC synthesis route.

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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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AUGUST 2, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $42.3-million million funding opportunity ( DOE-FOA-0002553 ) to support manufacturing innovations for high performance clean energy technologies to drive economy-wide reductions in carbon emissions, including: Topic area 1: Manufacturing Process Innovation.

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MARCH 24, 2014

A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has discovered a “sticky” conductive material that may eliminate the need for binders in Li-ion battery electrodes. The approach could also be employed for electrode preparation for other energy storage devices such as electrochemical capacitors. —Cao and Wei (2014).

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APRIL 30, 2022

The selected projects are: Advanced Manufacturing Process Innovations – Flex-Ion Battery Innovation Center. The Flex-Ion Battery Innovation Center, a division of Ventra Group Co., will establish a center of excellence for advanced Li-Ion battery manufacturing, in collaboration with partner eCAMION. Lead: Ventra Group Co.;

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Li-ion cathode materials that deliver high power and capacity and that also do not contain heavy metals are highly desired from a viewpoint of sustainability, the team notes in their paper. discharge properties as a cathode material in a Li-ion battery. discharge cycling of PPYT in LiNTf 2 /G4 at 45 °C, 1 C rate).

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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). Repeated swelling and shrinking eventually breaks contacts among the conducting carbon particles. Composite anodes based on this polymer and commercial Si particles exhibit 2,100 mAh g ?1

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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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JUNE 19, 2018

Zap&Go Ltd has been selected to contribute its unique Carbon-Ion (C-Ion) technology to a consortium led by Williams Advanced Engineering to develop next-generation battery systems for electric vehicles. The consortium seeks to deliver faster-charging, higher-power, higher-energy batteries that improve upon today’s technology.

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MARCH 8, 2017

The goal of the novel type of high-voltage battery is to extend the range of electric vehicles, to shorten charging times, to reduce battery weight, to enhance stability and durability, and above all, to substitute critical or precious raw materials commonly used in conventional lithium-ion batteries.

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JUNE 19, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has six recently launched applied battery research (ABR) projects as part of its Vehicle Technologies portfolio. The Argonne team is currently engineering anodes based on 50 wt% SiO-50 wt% Sn 30 Co 30 C 40 and a conductive polymer binder (PFFOMB). Argonne National Laboratory. Project funding is $2.5

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NOVEMBER 28, 2015

A team at Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA) ( earlier post ) has developed a nanostructured sulfur cathode with a truffle-like architecture which comprises a sulfur particle embedded with hollow carbon nanospheres and encapsulated with an ion-selective, flexible layer-by-layer (LBL) nanomembrane decorated with conductive carbon.

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JUNE 5, 2014

Woven carbon fiber can act as an electrode for lithium ion batteries. Researchers in Sweden are exploring the use of carbon fiber as an active electrode in a multifunctional structural Li-ion battery in an electric car; i.e., electrical storage is incorporated into the body of the car. In this €3.4-million

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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. —Scott White.

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MAY 2, 2015

Researchers in South Korea have developed free-standing and stackable all-solid-state lithium batteries (ASLBs) with high energy density and high rate capabilities. LiPON (Li 3.3 Schematic diagram of new cell. Credit: ACS, Nam et al. Click to enlarge. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters. —Nam et al.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding a combined $2.8 Anovion, with its partners, collaborators and stakeholders, will build 35,000 tons per annum of new synthetic graphite anode material capacity for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and critical energy storage applications. Earlier post.) Of that, $1.6

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MARCH 12, 2010

Sketch of the Sn/C/CGPE/ Li 2 S/C polymer battery. The battery is formed by a Sn/C composite anode, a PEO-based gel polymer electrolyte, and a Li 2 S/C cathode. A major hurdle is the high solubility in the organic electrolyte of the polysulfides Li 2 S x (1?x?8) PEO=poly(ethylene oxide). Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. The maximum surface area achieved with conventional activated carbon is about 3,000 m 2 g –1.

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JULY 28, 2011

Researchers with the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have embedded arrays of tin (Sn) nanopillars between graphene sheets without adding any polymer binder and carbon black for as-formed use as a high-performance anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have developed a novel nano-silicon paper electrode material for high capacity lithium-ion batteries. binderless) carbon-coated Si nanofiber (C-SiNF) electrodes produce a capacity of 802 mAh g ?1 The free-standing (i.e., —Favors et al.

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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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APRIL 17, 2012

Three groups funded under the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) program ( earlier post ) have independently synthesized silicon-composite. nanostructures as Li-ion anode materials with excellent capacity retention with greater than 800 mAh/g. reversible capacity.

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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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DECEMBER 31, 2012

Discharge capacity (left axis) and Coulombic efficiency (right axis) of the Li 2 S-C cathode as a function of cycle number. Their approach, described in a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , creates composites based on lithium sulfide uniformly dispersed in a carbon host, which serve to sequester polysulfides.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

A team of researchers led by scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have designed an active polyelectrolyte binder (PEB) that actively regulates key ion transport processes within a lithium-sulfur battery, and have also shown how it functions on a molecular level. Rate of C/5.

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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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OCTOBER 9, 2014

The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. Electrochemical conversion of carbon gases to sustainable fuels and chemicals.

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MAY 16, 2016

Researchers from Hunan University and Changsha University in China have designed 3D hierarchical porous nitrogen-doped aligned carbon nanotubes (HPNACNTs) with well-directed 1D conductive electron paths as scaffold to load sulfur for use as a high-performance cathode in Li-S batteries.

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JANUARY 3, 2018

Nexeon, a UK-based developer of silicon anode materials for Li-ion batteries ( earlier post ), and its partners have been awarded £7 million (US$9.5 million) project to develop significantly better materials for Li-ion batteries. million) in Innovate UK funding toward a £10-million (US$13.6-million)

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DECEMBER 31, 2014

Schematic illustration of a Li-O 2 cell employing a mesoporous catalytic polymer membrane. A modified Li-O 2 battery with a catalytic membrane showed a stable cyclability for 60 cycles with a capacity of 1000 mAh/g and a reduced degree of polarization (?0.3 Credit: ACS, RYu et al. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Electrochemical performance of the modified hollow carbon nanofiber cathode. (a) Lithium sulfur batteries are of great interest due to their high specific energy and relatively low cost (e.g., Lithium sulfur batteries are of great interest due to their high specific energy and relatively low cost (e.g., Credit: ACS, Zheng et al.

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MAY 2, 2017

Li-sulfur batteries are looked to as a likely next-generation higher energy density energy storage system due to the high theoretical capacity, low cost and high earth abundance of sulfur. In addition, when a Li-S cell operates under a lean electrolyte condition, its charge/discharge behavior, cell failure model, etc.

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