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Researchers identify new class of non-flammable electrolytes for Li-ion batteries

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Commercial Lithium-ion batteries usually contain an electrolyte that is dissolved in flammable organic solvents; damage to the battery from a variety of causes can result in fire, sometimes with catastrophic effect. —Dominica Wong, lead author. Dominica H. That makes this electrolyte stand apart from previous discoveries.

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Global geothermal industry passes 12,000 MW operational

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Financing was announced for projects in Costa Rica, Dominica, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Tanzania, and the United States, while projects in drilling and start-of-construction phases made headway in Chile, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Montserrat, The Philippines, Rwanda, and Zambia.

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Startup Blue Current seeking to commercialize non-flammable fluorinated electrolytes for Li-ion batteries

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) battery scientist Nitash Balsara and co-inventor Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have launched Blue Current , a startup company backed by investment firm Faster LLC, to commercialize their non-flammable electrolytes for Li-ion batteries. Dominica H.

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New hybrid polymer-glass electrolyte for solid-state lithium batteries

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Balsara and DeSimone have also co-founded a startup company called Blue Current, which aims to commercialize a perfluoropolyether-based nonflammable electrolyte they developed together (described in a 2014 PNAS paper, Wong et al. Dominica H. earlier post ). Wong, Jacob L. Thelen, Yanbao Fu, Didier Devaux, Ashish A. Pandya, Vincent S.

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