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UP Catalyst CO2-derived carbon nanotube electrode material boosts cycle life in Na-ion batteries

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Tests conducted by Titirici Group , a multidisciplinary research team based at Imperial College London, have found that a novel carbon nanotube electrode material derived from CO 2 —produced by Estonian nanotech company UP Catalyst ( earlier post )—enhances the cyclability of sodium-ion batteries.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

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There are real challenges with waste streams—they yield a lot of sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate, which will need to get landfilled. There’s a company in England that announced they’re going to build a hydrochemical processing facility that will produce around a hundred thousand tons of sodium sulfate annually as a byproduct.

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200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor

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Born in 1791, he received only a barebones education at church school in his village of Newington, Surrey (now part of South London). He had discovered sodium, potassium, and several compounds and invented the. Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a bookbinder. miner's safety lamp.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem – Charged EVs

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There are real challenges with waste streams—they yield a lot of sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate, which will need to get landfilled. There’s a company in England that announced they’re going to build a hydrochemical processing facility that will produce around a hundred thousand tons of sodium sulfate annually as a byproduct.

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Jervois to acquire SMP nickel & cobalt refinery in Brazil; concentrate from Idaho for refining, cobalt metal back to US

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In addition to nickel and cobalt electrolysis, the flowsheet and site encompasses leaching and neutralization, nickel purification, crystallization and evaporation, cobalt extraction, utilities, cutting and packing, electrical, maintenance, an industrial waste-water treatment plant and a sodium sulfate crystallization building.

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