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China’s first large-scale sodium-ion battery charges to 90% in 12 minutes

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Photo: China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage China’s first major sodium-ion battery energy storage station is now online, according to state-owned utility China Southern Power Grid Energy Storage. That’s enough to power 35,000 households and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50,000 tonnes annually. Get started here. –

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Solvay to produce silica from rice husk ash for tires in Europe, expansion plans in N America

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Solvay is investing at its Livorno, Italy site to launch the company’s first unit of circular highly dispersible silica (HDS) made with bio-based sodium silicate derived from rice husk ash (RHA). It reduces the overall carbon footprint and increases the share of renewable materials in our tires.

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PARC building cleantech portfolio; co-extrusion printing of novel battery electrodes and carbon-neutral renewable liquid fuels from atmospheric CO2

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PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), the home of a long line of technology innovations, including laser printing, object-oriented programming, and personal workstations with graphical user interfaces (e.g., Carbon-neutral liquid fuel. Source: PARC, portions courtesy of Ameridia Corp. Click to enlarge. Electrodes.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Personalized health care could revolutionize traditional medical practice,” Gao says. This second-generation e-skin sandwiched thin sheets of Teflon, copper, and polyimide that slide as the person moves, generating maximum power of 0.94 But to incorporate many different types of sensors, we need different material designs and tools.

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ANL team develops new class of Li- and Na- rechargeable batteries based on selenium and selenium-sulfur; greater volumetric energy densities than sulfur-based batteries

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Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed selenium and selenium–sulfur (Se x S y )-based cathode materials for a new class of room-temperature lithium and sodium batteries. The team built coin cells using carbon nanotube-containing composite Se and SeS 2. Click to enlarge. V) without failure. —Abouimrane et al.

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Researchers call for integration of materials sustainability into battery research; the need for in situ monitoring

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In their paper, they discuss key advances in both more sustainable chemistries and operando techniques, along with some of the remaining challenges and possible solutions, as we personally perceive them. Substantial progress in battery technology is essential if we are to succeed in an energy transition towards a more carbon-neutral society.

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Top 5 Electric Vehicle Start-Ups in India

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Gadkari also stated that 100 % lithium-ion batteries, which are a critical component in electric vehicles, will be manufactured in India, while the government also conducts research on other readily available materials for batteries such as aluminium ion, sodium ion, steel ion, and zinc ion.

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