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With a new design, lithium-sulfur batteries could reach their full potential. Most of these devices use well-known batteries”>lithium-ion battery technology. Sulfur is extremely abundant and cost effective and can hold more energy than traditional ion-based batteries. Source link.
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In 2012, the US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $120 million over five years to establish a new Batteries and EnergyStorage Hub known as the Joint Center for EnergyStorage Research (JCESR). Earlier post.) Click to enlarge. —George Crabtree. Crabtree (2015) Click to enlarge.
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Researchers from Hunan University and Changsha University in China have designed 3D hierarchical porous nitrogen-doped aligned carbon nanotubes (HPNACNTs) with well-directed 1D conductive electron paths as scaffold to load sulfur for use as a high-performance cathode in Li-S batteries. 2016.05.024.
This provides new opportunities to design and fabricate sulfur?graphene We believe that such a simple and controllable electrochemical assembly protocol will provide a new pathway for the production of various graphene-containing composites with unique structures for catalysis, sensors, and energystorage and conversions.
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