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APRIL 15, 2014

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have used a novel Ni-based metal organic framework (Ni-MOF) significantly to improve the performance of Li-sulfur batteries by immobilizing polysulfides within the cathode structure through physical and chemical interactions at molecular level. Li-S anode work.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

of Li deposition and stripping, along with an anodic stability of >5.5 Pairing a Li-metal anode in this electrolyte with and LiNi 0.6 mAh/cm 2 ) created a NMC622||Li cell, which showed a high capacity retention of 86% after 100 cycles at a high cutoff voltage of 4.6 Pairing a Li-metal anode in this electrolyte with and LiNi 0.6

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AUGUST 1, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its 2023 Critical Materials Assessment (2023 CMA), which evaluated materials for their criticality to global clean energy technology supply chains. The Assessment focuses on key materials with high risk of supply disruption that are integral to clean energy technologies.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA?E) E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. Earlier post.)The

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MARCH 12, 2020

Researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the Samsung R&D Institute Japan (SRJ) have developed a new high-performance all-solid-state lithium metal battery that uses, for the first time, a silver-carbon (Ag-C) composite layer as the anode with no excess Li. The paper appears in Nature Energy.

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JULY 8, 2013

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. kWh kg -1 cell (1.0

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MARCH 6, 2012

Consequently, the market may be poised for the entrance of a first wave of higher-energy density—and lower-cost—automotive Si-C cells in the 2014 or 2015 timeframe. (As As an example, the military’s BB-2590 Li-ion battery used in a range of portable systems calls for a cycle life of ≥224 and ≥ 3 years.). Earlier post.)

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JUNE 9, 2020

Roskill forecasts that Li-ion battery demand will increase more than ten-fold by 2029, reaching in excess of 1,800GWh capacity. In the late 2020s, Li-ion technologies could see increasing competition from other battery technologies, though Li-ion cells are expected to maintain their dominant position, Roskill said.

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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. CAM-7 is a stabilized, high-nickel cathode material that combines high energy content with high power capability. Argonne National Laboratory. Project funding is $2.5 Ah and 247 Wh/kg.

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JUNE 28, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is conducting research on alternative options to reduce costs and make large-scale energy storage safer and more practical. Innovative fabrication methods can also lead to significant energy storage system improvements. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Bar chart showing the specific activities of Pt/C, Pt poly-crystal electrode, IL-encapsulated Pt 3 Ni nanoframes/C, PtNi-Meso-TF, and Pt 3 Ni(111)-Skin electrode, and the corresponding improvement factors vs. Pt/C. Currently, the best electrocatalyst for both reactions consists of platinum nanoparticles dispersed on carbon.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The new battery features high energy content and high rate capability. Korea) are developing a new advanced lithium-ion battery featuring a high capacity Sn-C nanostructured anode and a high rate, high-voltage Li[Ni 0.45 While Lithium metal alloys (Li-M, M = Sn, Si, Sb, etc.) Click to enlarge. Mn 1.45 ]O 4 spinel cathode.

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JANUARY 3, 2015

A team at Nankai University in China has devised high-performance Li-sulfur battery cathode materials consisting of sulfur nanodots (2 nm average) directly electrodeposited on flexible nickel foam; the cathode materials incorporate no carbon or binder. However, the electrochemical inertness of bulk sulfur in the cathode of Li?

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MARCH 1, 2012

Cycling performance of Li/SeS 2 ?C, Unlike the widely studied Li/S system, both Se and Se x S y can be cycled to high voltages (up to 4.6 The discovery of new electrode materials is key to realizing safe and efficient electrochemical energy storage systems essential to enabling future green energy technologies.

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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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APRIL 22, 2022

As reported in an open-access paper in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , Li||LiNi 0.8 Li||NCM811 cells with a thin (50 ? With the increasing demand for rechargeable batteries with a high energy density (? For example, with increasing nickel content, Ni?rich off voltages of 4.7 off voltage (> 4.5

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Conventional electrolytes for Li-ion batteries contain ethylene carbonate (EC) and other additives. However, the cycling performance of Li-ion cells using these carbonate-based electrolytes has been poor at higher voltages (≥4.4 A paper on their work is published the Journal of Power Sources.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Rechargeable Na-ion batteries work on the same basic principle as Li-ion batteries—i.e., Motivated by the success in the development of Li-ion batteries, there is growing interest in Na-ion batteries for electrical vehicles and power backup applications. for the positive electrode. for the positive electrode. —Wang et al.

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JULY 18, 2014

C 16 ) range straight-chain alkanes and/or branched-chain alkanes, the team notes in their paper in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. —Li et al. Most work done so far with lignocellulose-based platform compounds has concentrated on the production of diesel (C 9 ?C C 21 ) or jet fuel (C 8 ?C

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MARCH 19, 2019

Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology. The technology could be used for purposes beyond generating energy. Kenney, Yongtao Meng, Wei-Hsuan Hung, Yijin Liu, Jianan Erick Huang, Rohit Prasanna, Pengsong Li, Yaping Li, Lei Wang, Meng-Chang Lin, Michael D.

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However, Na-ion batteries have exhibited weak charge-discharge behavior except at high temperature—indicative of sluggish kinetics in standard carbon anodes. TiO 2 is one of a few transition metal oxide materials that intercalates Li ions at reasonably low voltage (~1.5 Earlier post.). —Xiong et al.

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AUGUST 8, 2014

A team at George Washington University led by Stuart Licht has developed a relatively efficient electrochemical process for the production of ammonia from water and nitrogen, without the need for an independent hydrogenation step (and thus the associated carbon-intensive steam reforming of methane as the hydrogen source). —Licht et al.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Khalil Amine, Senior Scientist and Manager of Argonne National Laboratory’s advanced Lithium Battery Program, provided an update on some of the activities at Argonne on advanced high-power systems for hybrid-electric (HEV) and high-energy systems for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV). XRD of new Argonne nano-Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 spinel.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

A detector measures the energy and intensity (number of x-rays per second at a specific energy) of each X-ray, which is transformed into an elemental concentration using either a non-standard technique such as fundamental parameters or user-generated calibration curves. SciAps recognizes that no single tool solves every problem.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

A team at Argonne National Laboratory has used spatially resolved energy dispersive X-ray diffraction to obtain a “movie” of lithiation and delithiation in different sections of a Li-ion battery cell and to quantify lithium gradients that develop in a porous graphite electrode during cycling at a 1C rate (full discharge in 1 hour).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

A team from the Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy and Gas Hydrate, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences reports on a pilot-scale biomass-gasification-reforming system with optimized catalyst to produce synthesis gas for liquid fuel synthesis in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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JULY 17, 2018

Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD), the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) have developed a non-flammable fluorinated electrolyte that supports the most aggressive and high-voltage cathodes in a Li-metal battery. Li metal offers one of the highest specific capacities (3,860 mAh g ?1

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JULY 26, 2010

After carbon coating, the prepared LiMnPO 4 cathode demonstrated a flat potential at 4.1 V versus Li with a specific capacity reaching as high as 168 mAh/g under a galvanostatic charging/discharging mode, along with an excellent cyclability. V) vs Li/Li+.7 7 —Choi et al. Choi et al. Choi et al.

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JULY 7, 2016

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a new way to increase the robustness and energy storage capability of a particular class of “lithium-rich” cathode materials by using a carbon dioxide-based gas mixture to create oxygen vacancies at the material’s surface. —Qiu et al.

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JUNE 18, 2015

Tesla Motor’s Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel signed a 5-year research agreement with Dalhousie University’s Jeff Dahn, Li-ion battery researcher with the Faculty of Science, and his group of students, postdoctoral researchers and technical staff. combinatorial solutions handling robot for respirator carbons.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Substantial progress in battery technology is essential if we are to succeed in an energy transition towards a more carbon-neutral society. We need to rethink the processes, and move towards more sustainable energy harvesting and storage technologies that become part of a circular economy. —Grey and Tarascon.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $30 million to help lower the costs of the onshore production of rare earths and other critical minerals and materials from domestic coal-based resources. ( DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), under the purview of FECM, will manage the selected projects.

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MAY 15, 2015

Although lithium-ion batteries are currently the predominant battery technology in electric and hybrid vehicles, as well as other energy storage applications, sodium-ion could offer significant cost, safety and sustainability benefits. Faradion’s sodium-ion cells deliver a specific energy of more than 140 Wh/kg. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 29, 2014

During sodiation (for NIBs), it can also exhibit a high capacity of 306 mAh/g and superior rate tolerance and good capacity retention (88% after 1500 cycles at 18 A/g) with a power density of 42 kW/kg at an energy density more than 100 Wh/kg. This is important in boosting the high-rate performance in both Li and Na ion storage.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). Molten carbonate electrosynthesized boron-doped CNTs exhibit high electrical conductivity. —Ren et al.

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APRIL 8, 2010

As has been noted many times, silicon is a promising candidate for electrodes in lithium ion batteries due to its large theoretical energy density of about 4,200 mAhg -1 —10x higher than graphite (372 mAhg -1 )—and relatively low working potential (~0.5 V vs Li/Li + ). In their study, Song et al. Song et al.

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MARCH 25, 2016

The OER performance of multimetal oxides based on Fe, Co, and Ni is particularly promising, and OER activity often outperforms that of the corresponding single-metal oxides. It opens new avenues to speed progress in efficient materials for energy conversion and storage. —Edward Sargent.

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