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JULY 20, 2013

Controls and energy storage top the list. The greatest amount of investment is related to, in order of funding, controls; energy storage; vehicle body and architecture; and electric motors. HI-WI, iKRAVT); controls for energy storage systems (i.e. Energy storage. Source: JRC. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

A team of researchers led by scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have designed an active polyelectrolyte binder (PEB) that actively regulates key ion transport processes within a lithium-sulfur battery, and have also shown how it functions on a molecular level.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The research pathways focus on fuel diversification, vehicle efficiency, energy storage, lightweight materials, and new mobility technologies to improve the overall energy efficiency and affordability of the transportation system. Lithium-sulfur and lithium-air battery cell development.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

A team of researchers in China has devised a simple and mass-produceable method to modify a Li metal anode to avoid the formation of an unstable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) and the subsequent growth of Li dendrites in high-energy-density Li-S batteries. A paper on their work is published in the journal Energy Storage Materials.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

Researchers at Jiangsu Normal University in China have devised a boron-doped carbon-sulfur (BCS) aerogel with consecutive “core-shell” stuctures as a binder-free cathode for lithium-sulfur batteries. Good porous structures of BCS aerogel can provide sufficient space for the expansion of active sulfur.

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MAY 9, 2017

Materials researchers of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Switzerland have, in collaboration with the Université Grenoble Alpes (France), developed a simple method that can improve the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries by 25-30%. For example, the lithium-sulfur battery rapidly loses capacity with repeated charging.

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APRIL 2, 2021

To meet government’s aim of moving towards a more circular economy, keeping resources in use as long as possible, minimising waste and promoting resource efficiency, the infrastructure for managing lithium-ion batteries when they are removed from electric vehicles (EVs) must be developed.

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AUGUST 26, 2014

The composite shows good rate performance and excellent cycling stability for use as a cathode material in Lithium-sulfur batteries. Polyaniline is an interesting conducting polymer because it works as a substrate to load sulfur and can be used as a cathode in lithium sulfur batteries. —Li et. Raji, Errol L.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have designed a lithium–sulfur battery using electrically connected graphite and lithium metal as a hybrid anode to control undesirable surface reactions on lithium. Huang et al. Click to enlarge. —Huang et al.

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APRIL 23, 2018

The “classic” high-energy capacity Lithium-sulfur battery is predicated on the use of a sulfur-based cathode and a Lithium-metal anode. Among the issues hampering the commercialization of this attractive technology are the safety and performance issues associated with the use of the lithium-metal anode.

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JULY 21, 2014

The first Calbattery/CALEB LIB will utilize novel high-voltage lithium cobalt oxide cathode, high voltage dual-phase electrolyte, and conventional anode materials that can be used for power tools, laptops, and cell phones. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

OXIS Energy will develop a low temperature electrolyte for Lithium Sulfur (Li-S) rechargeable battery chemistry and Hyperdrive Innovation Ltd will develop a chemistry-agnostic battery management system and packaging that will withstand and outperform the current lead-acid battery solutions.

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JUNE 23, 2016

The researchers said that their work, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), represents a significant breakthrough to enable high performance lithium batteries. Using lithium metal in organic liquid electrolyte systems faces many challenges in terms of battery performance and safety. La 3 Zr 2 Al 0.2

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MARCH 31, 2016

Lithium-sulfur batteries—comprising a sulfur cathode and Li metal anode—are widely seen as a very promising next-generation electric energy storage system due to their very high theoretical specific energy (2550 Wh kg −1 ) and energy density (2862 Wh L −1 ). Background. Bhattacharya, P.,

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

FeS 2 is particularly attractive for energy storage technology due to its earth abundance, low toxicity, and low raw material cost. … In this work we explore the sodium and lithium conversion of ultrafine FeS 2 nanoparticles, with a tight size distribution centered around ∼4.5 Pint Lab / Vanderbilt) Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

A team from the China University of Geosciences has taken a novel approach to stabilizing Lithium-sulfur batteries by functionalizing the carbon-sulfur cathode with DNA. Rechargeable lithium/sulfur battery promises an appealing candidate for energy storage to power portable devices and electric vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have demonstrated in the laboratory a lithium-sulfur (Li/S) battery that has more than twice the specific energy of lithium-ion batteries, and that lasts for more than 1,500 cycles of charge-discharge with minimal decay of the battery’s capacity.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Researchers at Stanford University and SLAC led by Stanford associate professor Yi Cui have used a sulfur–TiO 2 yolk–shell design for a cathode material for a lithium-sulfur battery that achieved an initial specific capacity of 1,030?mAh?g This is the highest performing sulfur cathode in the world, as far as we know.

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MAY 2, 2017

Li-sulfur batteries are looked to as a likely next-generation higher energy density energy storage system due to the high theoretical capacity, low cost and high earth abundance of sulfur. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters. Ah/cm 2 and good cycle life. Junzheng Chen, Wesley A.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Vasant Kumar at the University of Cambridge and Professor Renjie Chen at the Beijing Institute of Technology has devised a three-dimensional hierarchical sandwich-type graphene sheet-sulfur/carbon (GS-S/C ZIF8-D ) composite to address performance-related issues in Lithium-sulfur batteries such as low efficiency and capacity degradation.

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JANUARY 14, 2015

Lithium–sulfur batteries are one of the most promising candidates to satisfy emerging market demands, as they possess a theoretical capacity and energy density of 1,675 mAh g -1 and 2,500 kW kg -1 , respectively, superior to current lithium-ion batteries. Resources. Garsuch, T. Weiss, and L.F. Batteries'

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JUNE 17, 2015

Lithium metal, having a high theoretical specific capacity of 3,860 mAh g -1 and the most negative electrochemical potential among anode materials, has been considered an ideal anode in lithium battery systems over the past four decades.

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JANUARY 1, 2015

A team at the Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO) has demonstrated that the electrochemical performance of sulfur nanoparticles (NPs) in the cathode of a Lithium-sulfur battery is critically dependent on the sulfur particle size. When paired with lithium metal anode to form rechargeable lithium?sulfur

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

This will be followed by an assessment of the perceived technological barriers and the potential energy density gains for so-called post-LiBs, namely lithium-oxygen and lithium-sulfur batteries. On the Li-sulfur side, it is difficult to achieve the expected gravimetric energy density from a lithium sulfur battery-system.

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JULY 10, 2015

As one of the most intensely investigated technologies in the electrochemical energy storage field, lithium−sulfur (Li−S) batteries have observed rapid improvements in their properties in recent years. A paper explaining their work appears in the ACS journal Nano Letters. —Chen et al. 5b01837.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Lithium sulfur (Li?S) S) battery is a promising candidate for next- generation energy storage devices. However, lithium metal has safety and cyclability issues due to the formation of lithium dendrites; the pulverized and detached lithium metal formed during cycling can result in explosions when exposed to air.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

Li 2 S x ) to liquid electrolytes, such as DOL-DME-LiTFSI and TEGDME-LiCF 3 SO 3 , has shown the most promising results in increasing the lithium-sulfur cell stability and efficiency. However, longer cycle life and further characterizations are certainly required to match the severe targets of the lithium battery community.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Lithium-sulfur batteries are extremely attractive as a next-generation energy storage solution due to their high theoretical energy density (2600 W·h·kg −1 ), environmental friendliness, and low cost due to the earth-abundant resource of elemental sulfur—also a byproduct from the petroleum industry.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Lithium-sulfur and lithium air batteries have the potential to store 10 times more energy in the same space as the current state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries. Using this insight, the team discovered a way to significantly extend the lifetime of lithium electrodes, to be revealed in a future publication.

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MAY 16, 2016

As often stated, Li-sulfur batteries are extremely attractive as high-capacity next-generation energy storage systems due to their high theoretical specific capacity (S: 1675 mAh g -1) and excellent theoretical energy density (2600 Wh kg -1 ), low cost, environment friendliness and abundance. 2016.05.024.

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APRIL 28, 2016

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are of great interest as next-generation energy storage solutions, especially for electric vehicles, due to their high energy density, low production cost and environmental friendliness. b) Selected voltage profiles of lithiated silicon-sulfur battery from 1 st to 100 th at 0.27

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

Li-sulfur batteries—which conventionally use elemental sulfur (with conductive additives) as the cathode, an aprotic liquid electrolyte, and lithium metal as the anode—are under intensive investigation by research groups worldwide because of the promise for low-cost, high-energy storage. Earlier post.)

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JULY 8, 2013

They suggest that a low cost, non-flammable and heavy-metal-free aqueous cathode can contribute to the feasibility of scale-up of lithium-iodine batteries for practical energy storage. The specific energy density (~0.33 kWh kg -1 cell (1.0 500 km) [311 miles]. —Zhao et al.

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APRIL 11, 2015

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 energy storage and conversions. Batteries Graphene Li-Sulfur' —Li et al.

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MAY 20, 2019

Researchers at Beihang University in Beijing have developed a linear molecule sulfur-rich organic material as sulfur cathode for a lithium-sulfur battery. The tetramethylthiuram disulfide-sulfur (TMTD-S) cathode material delivers an initial capacity of 685?mAh 1 at 0.2C (1?C?=?1061?mAh 1 after 200 cycles.

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JUNE 5, 2009

The combination of lithium and manganese rich mixed metal oxides extends the operating time between charges, increases the calendar life and improves the inherent safety of lithium-ion cells. BASF currently offers a high-energy Lithium Nickel Cobalt Oxide ( LNCO ) cathode material. Earlier post.). US Patent 6,677,082.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

would leverage abundant, domestic natural gas resources and. Electron Energy. ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Transportation Energy Storage. that could improve the amount of energy storage allowing an. Lithium-Sulfur Batteries. innovative water-based, lithium-sulfur battery.

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