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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The projects were selected as part of ARPA-E’s Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program. RECLAIM: Electrochemical Lithium and Nickel Extraction with Concurrent Carbon Dioxide Mineralization ($2,999,997). Feedstocks will include Li/Ni/Ca/Mg-rich igneous and sedimentary minerals.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Korea have developed an innovative electrolyte additive that enables a high-energy-density Li-ion battery to retain more than 80% of its initial capacity even after hundreds of cycles. An open-access paper on their work is published in Nature Communications.

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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 ? V) of the prevailing cathode materials (such as LiNi x Co y Mn z O 2 , x+y+z=1) and developing novel materials such as Li?rich For example, with increasing nickel content, Ni?rich

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

Korea) has developed a novel high-voltage electrolyte additive, di-(2,2,2 trifluoroethyl)carbonate (DFDEC), for use with the promising lithium-rich layered composite oxide high-energy cathode material xLi 2 MnO 3 ·(1-x)LiMO 2 (M = Mn, Ni, Co). O 2 (Li 1.2 Mn 0.525 Ni 0.175 Co 0.1 O 2 (Li 1.2 136 Wh kg ?1

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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?S

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JULY 15, 2011

Western Lithium USA Corporation has announced that its 2010 and 2011 drill program has resulted in a significant increase to the project’s resource size. The resource for Stage I is now defined by approximately 200 drill holes that have all intersected lithium bearing clays. The resource estimate was calculated by Timothy J.

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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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MAY 28, 2018

Researchers at the University of Akron have developed hierarchical porous Mn 3 O 4 /C nanospheres as anode materials for Li-ion batteries. mA/g), excellent ratability (425 mAh/g at 4 A/g), and extremely long cycle life (no significant capacity fading after 3000 cycles at 4A/g) as an anode in a Li-ion battery. Li/Li + ).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

A team from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and the Universidad de Valencia has synthesized a hybrid graphene-nickel/manganese mixed oxide that, when used as an anode material for Li-ion batteries, shows a maximum capacity of 1030 mAhg -1 during the first discharge; capacity values higher than 400 mAhg -1 were still achieved after 10 cycles.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Existing water-splitting methods rely on highly purified water—a precious resource and costly to produce. However, grid-scale freshwater electrolysis would put a heavy strain on vital water resources. Their findings are published in an open-access paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. —Kuang et al.

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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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OCTOBER 30, 2014

A team from Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung (ZSW) in Germany reports in a paper in the Journal of Power Sources that the interaction of high-rate and low-temperature cycling increases the safety hazard for Li-ion batteries. In that that study, they cycled the cells at temperatures ranging from -20 °C to +70 ?

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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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MARCH 29, 2015

Researchers at Dalhousie University (Canada) led by Dr. Jeff Dahn now report that Li[Ni 1/3 Mn 1/3 Co 1/3 ]O 2 (NMC111)/graphite and Li[Ni 0.42 We encourage Li-ion battery manufacturers and researchers studying NMC-based Li-ion cells to try “PES211” in their experiments. —Ma et al.

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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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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. The size of these batteries (in comparison to those used for portable electronics) places severe pressure on materials resources. Elemental resources. —Grey and Tarascon.

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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. Schematic illustration of the aqueous Li-I 2 battery.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

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 In a previous paper we described a novel design battery formed by combining a high capacity nanostructured tin-carbon (Sn-C) anode with a high voltage LiNi 0.5 O 4 spinel cathode.

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JULY 18, 2014

C 15 branched alkanes and cycloalkanes with relatively higher density was synthesized, for the first time, by the solid acid-catalyzed HAA reaction of 2-MF and CPO, which can be easily derived from lignocellulose, followed by the HDO over Ni-base catalysts. —Li 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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JUNE 19, 2014

million project to combine TIAX’s proprietary CAM-7 cathode material ( earlier post ) with a blended Si/carbon anode to achieve >200 Wh/kg and >400 Wh/L energy and >800 W/kg and >1600 W/L 10s pulse power targets under USABC PHEV battery testing procedures. Resources. ( TIAX is the sole organization in a $2.2-million Ah and 247 Wh/kg.

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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. Licht (2017).

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MARCH 6, 2012

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.). LIB capacity is limited in part by the intercalation of Li ions by the anode material—i.e., Envia is targeting its high energy density Li-ion cells at plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles.

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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 However, both Li/S and Li/O 2. systems suffer from cycling performance issues that impede their commercial applications: Li/O 2. C) and metallic Li and Na. C, Na/SeS 2 ?C,

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MAY 15, 2015

batteries using the same process of ion insertion and removal as in Li-ion batteries—have been discussed in the literature for some time. For cathode materials, the reversible, stable capacity of bulk Na + intercalation is usually limited to levels far below what can be obtained in Li-ion electrode materials. Earlier post.)

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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. ( However, rare earth elements occur naturally, including in domestic coal and coal wastes.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

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.). This is highly unusual material behavior.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

A Mn-spinel cathode/carbon anode system has calendar life issues during cycling and again at high temperatures. While other researchers have looked at stabilizing the spinel, Amine said, Argonne looked at replacing the carbon with a lithium titanate material. XRD of new Argonne nano-Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 spinel. Ni 0.175 Co 0.10

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The inhomogeneous and uncontrollable aggregation of Li at electrode/electrolyte interface would always lead to notorious dendrite growth and limit their further application due to the unsatisfying electrochemical performance and severe safety issues.

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JULY 30, 2009

Both EnerDel and AESC, Nissan’s Li-ion JV, work with that chemistry. million USABC research project, 50% cost-shared with DOE, in partnership with ANL on developing a battery system that matches the safety of its lithium titanate anode (Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 ) with a safe, high voltage 4.8V EnerDel is currently wrapping up an 18-month, $2.5

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

While commercial nickel-based catalysts are very effective in the elimination of biomass tar and its conversion to H 2 and CO, the quick deactivation of the nickel-based catalyst by carbon deposition and sintering of active Ni particles seriously impedes its application. The total cold gas efficiency was above 82%. —Wang et al.

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MAY 20, 2016

Researchers from Hanyang University in Korea and the BMW Group have developed a new fully operational, practical Li-ion rechargeable battery combining high energy density with excellent cycle life. g cm -3 ; a two-sloped full concentration gradient (TSFCG) Li[Ni 0.85 O 2 , Li[Ni 0.85 O 2 (NCM) and Li[Ni 0.8

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APRIL 8, 2010

V vs Li/Li + ). A number of different nanophase forms of silicon show promise in addressing that problem, including nanocrystals; nanocomposites with either carbon or other phases inactive to lithium; nanoporous materials; nanowires; bundled Si nanotubes; and thin films. Song et al.

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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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Plug In Partners

JULY 18, 2008

A study by EPRI , the California Air Resources Board, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and others (5.3MB PDF) concluded that plug-in hybrids produced substantially lower greenhouse gas emissions than either conventional gasoline cars or unplugged hybrids. more ) T he good news is this.

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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 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. —Shirley Meng.

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