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Researchers use fluorescence probe to show distribution of active lithium species on lithium metal anodes

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As the battery is recharged, this process is reversed, depositing lithium back onto the anode. A paper on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. As a lithium anode battery discharges, the anode releases electrons to the circuit and positively charged lithium ions to the electrolyte.

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US-China team reports that silicene could serve as basis for high-performance Li-ion electrodes

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Researchers from Harvard University, Peking University, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences report in the ACS journal Nano Letters that silicene—the silicon analogue to graphene—could serve as high-capacity host of Li in Li-ion rechargeable batteries.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

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Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. Following World War II, he pursued a doctorate in physics at the University of Chicago. Nobel Laureate John B. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S.

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Solid-State EV Batteries Now Face “Production Hell”

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Solid-state is a great technology,” noted Bob Galyen, owner of Galyen Energy LLC and former chief technology officer for the Chinese battery giant, Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL). A single breakthrough, as if from above, is not likely to turn the whole industry on its nose anytime soon.

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EV Guru: Sodium-Ion Batteries are Coming Sooner Than You think!

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In addition, about 90% of the world’s supply of lithium is controlled by Chinese companies. ​Rechargeable sodium-ion batteries are similar in construction to lithium-ion ones. Also sodium is universally available. CATL, the Chinese battery behemoth has claimed to have reached that.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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Berkeley Lab team demonstrates high-rate, high-energy, long-life Li/S battery in the lab; looking for industry partners

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For one, the S-GO cathode can accommodate the volume change of the electrode active material as sulfur is converted to Li 2 S on discharge, and back to elemental sulfur on recharge. The research was funded by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science and a University of California Proof of Concept Award.

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