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Nth Cycle says its electroextraction tech significantly reduces transportation costs for Li-ion battery recycling

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My co-founder Chad Vecitis, who’s now our VP of R&D, was a full-time professor at Harvard and actually developed this technology over 10 years ago. Charged : In a typical lithium-ion battery recycling process, would this be an added step that would help what’s currently used, or would it replace things?

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UCR team finds adding even small amounts of tin to Si-based anode greatly improves charge capacity and cycling stability

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Despite the advantageous properties of silicon as a high-capacity, next-generation anode material for Li-ion batteries, several well-known and widely investigated factors have hampered its successful integration in real-life batteries.

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XALT Energy, HED develop XBV telematics system for battery-electric powertrains

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In a bid to streamline battery tracking options for customers with a single-source solution, battery-maker XALT Energy has developed XALT Battery Viewer (XBV) , a telematics system that is sold as a companion tool for the heavy-duty lithium-ion batteries the company provides to commercial fleet manufacturers. —Chad Repp.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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Images of Li-air cathode produced by neutron-computed tomography. For some areas of neutron-assisted research, such as the investigation of advanced Li-ion batteries, this is crucial.). Thomas Watkins; Hassina Bilheux; Ke An; Andrew Payzant; Ryan Dehoff; Chad Duty; William Peter; Craig Blue; and Craig Brice. Simmons, B.,