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NASA selects Amprius and U Maryland for two new battery projects; silicon anode and Li-S

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NASA’s Game Changing Development (GCD) program has selected two proposals for Phase II awards targeted toward developing new energy storage technologies to replace the battery systems currently used by America’s space program. of Sunnyvale, California: Silicon Anode Based Cells for High Specific Energy Li + Systems.

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Univ. of Maryland researchers using modified Tobacco Mosaic Virus as template for Li-ion electrodes

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An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Maryland’s A. Using TMV, the researchers can greatly increase the electrode surface area and its capacity to store energy and enable fast charge/discharge times. Micrograph of electrode and image of individual nanorod showing core/shell structure. Resources.

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ARPA-E awarding $36M to 22 projects in RANGE program for transformative EV storage

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. University of Maryland. Multifunctional.

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Maxwell supplying ultracaps to ABB for hybrid version of Philadelphia rail energy recuperation system

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If connection to the AC grid is not available, then the ENVILINE ESS (Energy Storage System) stores the surplus braking energy and feeds it to the power line to assist the acceleration of the train. —Jacques Poulin, ABB’s product manager for energy storage and rail.

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. meters long, weigh 62 kilograms, and store 3 kilowatt-hours. But atop the list are a couple of surprises. Number one?

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ARPA-E announces $98M in funding for 40 OPEN projects; two opposed-piston engines projects receive $10M total

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Drop-In Replacement Materials from Abundant Resources to Double Energy in EV Batteries – $3,100,000. Sila Nanotechnologies will develop a class of drop-in cathode replacement materials to double the energy stored in lithium-ion batteries, the most popular battery chemistry used in a wide range of applications, including electric vehicles.

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Laser-burned graphene could replace platinum as fuel cell catalyst

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Graphene is a unique material that has been widely investigated and found to have broad applications in fields such as energy storage, electronics, and electrocatalysis. Rice graduate student Ruquan Ye and Rice alumnus Zhiwei Peng, now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, are lead authors of the paper.

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