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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Researchers in South Korea have developed a novel high-energy cathode material, Na 1.5 F 0.7 , for sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries (NIBs). This new material provides an energy density of 600 Wh kg –1 , the highest value among Na-ion cathodes. by tailoring the polyanion group of the crystal and expanding the redox range to V3.8+/V5+

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MAY 28, 2014

The study, which provides a joint industry analysis of how different types of batteries are used in different automotive applications, concludes that lead-based batteries will by necessity remain the most wide-spread energy storage system in automotive applications for the foreseeable future. Lithium-ion batteries.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

Described in a paper published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the smart membrane separator could enable the design of a new category of rechargeable/refillable energy storage devices with high energy density and specific power that would overcome the contemporary limitations of electric vehicles.

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MARCH 15, 2018

The researchers present these results in the journal Nature Reviews Materials as part of a cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. … However, at present, the use of cobalt is still often necessary for cathode materials with high energy density owing to its stabilizing effect in layered oxides (including NCM(622) and NCA).

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MARCH 13, 2015

Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have found a way to process biomass-derived natural silk to create carbon-based nanosheets that could potentially be used in Li-ion batteries and other energy storage devices. through a facile synthesis route for highly efficient energy storage devices. —Hou et al.

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JUNE 23, 2014

RAL researchers are proposing a new process for the decomposition of ammonia to release hydrogen that involves the stoichiometric decomposition and formation of sodium amide from Na metal. To date, very few candidates show potential beyond that of the seminal work on titanium-doped sodium alanate. Credit: ACS, David et al.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems. New York State Electric & Gas Corporation.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

Federal Agency Battery and Energy Storage Initiatives and Funding Obligations, Fiscal Years 2009. GAO was asked to: identify the scope and key characteristics of federal battery and energy storage initiatives; determine the extent to which there is potential fragmentation, overlap, or duplication, if any, among these initiatives; and.

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JUNE 14, 2012

The researchers attributed the good sodium-ion insertion properties to the short diffusion distance in the HCNWs and the large interlayer distance (0.37 This greatly limits the range of potential candidate materials. They investigated sodium ion insertion?extraction Earlier post.) —Cao et al. discharge cycling.

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APRIL 2, 2021

To simulate an EV battery pack, the project considers a range of length scales, from the nanoscale—where atoms interact—up to the macroscale of a complete pack and its electronic control mechanisms.

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JUNE 13, 2019

Working with the Mellon College of Science’s Matyjaszewski, a leader in polymer chemistry and materials science, and Jay Whitacre, Trustee Professor in Energy in the College of Engineering and director of the Wilton E. —Jay Whitacre. The researchers believe that their method could have far reaching impacts. 2019.05.022.

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MARCH 1, 2017

An open-access paper on the work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. lithium, sodium or potassium) on a copper–carbon cathode current collector at a voltage of more than 3.0 The energy-gap “window” E g = 1.23 Resources. eV, which promises to offer acceptable operation at lower temperatures.

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MARCH 1, 2012

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed selenium and selenium–sulfur (Se x S y )-based cathode materials for a new class of room-temperature lithium and sodium batteries. C in the range 0.8 paves the way for new, promising opportunities to enable high energy batteries for transportation and grid applications.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Potassium, an alkali metal similar to lithium (and sodium) can be used in a rechargeable battery. They determined that the oxidation process can be complete within the potential range where the carbon electrode and the electrolyte are relatively stable. O 2 batteries.In —Ren and Wu. The smaller discharge overpotential of the K?O

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JANUARY 18, 2017

We need new storage technologies if more renewables are to be used on the electrical grid; similarly, the electrification of transport requires much cheaper and longer-lasting batteries. The size of these batteries (in comparison to those used for portable electronics) places severe pressure on materials resources. Elemental resources.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Given how fast things change in this business, chances are lithium-ion batteries – which have drawbacks in terms of sustainability, energy security and cost – will be overtaken by another type of energy storage. JMEV, another Chinese firm, also announced the rollout of a new EV powered by SIBs from Farasis Energy.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

The study also concludes that lead-based batteries will remain the only viable mass market energy storage system in automotive applications for the foreseeable future. There are no current or future resource availability issues with metals used in lead-based batteries. The review.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Grid Command Distribution allows utilities quickly to build circuit models with multiple configurations; assess complex resource deployment scenarios; and. VVO seeks to optimize voltage at all points along the distribution feeder under all loading conditions, thereby increasing grid efficiency.). (VVO

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

In a paper in Nature Materials , a team of researchers from BASF SE and Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen report on the performance of a sodium-air (sodium superoxide) cell. Their work, they suggest, demonstrates that substitution of lithium by sodium may offer an unexpected route towards rechargeable metal–air batteries.

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MAY 6, 2019

A team led by researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany is proposing a new class of high entropy materials for energy storage applications. Additionally, this approach enables the reduction of toxic and costly elements in battery cathodes, without significantly affecting the energy density.

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MARCH 15, 2011

Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. published in the ACS journal Chemical Reviews , reviews in detail four stationary storage systems considered the most promising candidates for electrochemical energy storage: vanadium redox flow; sodium-beta alumina membrane; lithium-ion; and lead-carbon batteries.

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JUNE 7, 2011

low-cost Na-ion battery system for upcoming power and energy. storage systems, the team concludes in a paper published in the journal Advanced Materials. low-cost Na-ion battery system for upcoming power and energy. storage systems, the team concludes in a paper published in the journal Advanced Materials. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a nanocomposite material of amorphous, porous FePO 4 nanoparticles electrically wired by single-wall carbon nanotubes as a potential cathode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). The sizes of the porous space within the FePO 4 NPs range from a few to tens of nanometers.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The discovery potentially could shift the whole paradigm of high-power electrochemical energy storage with new design principles for electrodes, said Xianyong Wu, a postdoctoral scholar at OSU and the first author of the paper published in the journal Nature Energy. Department of Energy supported this research.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2021

TFT develops technologies for electrode production within CELEST—Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Ulm & Karlsruhe—one of the biggest battery research platforms worldwide. The range of the battery remains the same, even with 3C cycles (rapid charging times of twenty minutes).

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APRIL 12, 2015

Researchers at the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (CEES), a partnership between the MIT Materials Processing Center and Lomonosov Moscow State University, are focusing on the development of higher capacity batteries. Craig Carter, with their associates, published a study in Advanced Energy Materials (Li et al.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

The new SeS x cathodes could also provide a way around the cycling challenges facing Li-air and Li-S, while delivering a comparable boost in energy density (and hence, for example, range in an electric vehicle.). 5 times the energy density of conventional Li ion cells. Recently, lithium?sulfur sulfur (Li/S) and lithium?oxygen

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Natron Energy , a developer of new battery cell technology based on Prussian Blue analogue electrodes and a sodium-ion electrolyte, has closed a strategic investment by Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) to support the development of stationary energy storage systems for demand charge management at electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.

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JUNE 19, 2015

The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $55 million in funding for 18 innovative projects as part of ARPA-E’s two newest programs: Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture (TERRA) and GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems (GENSETS). Earlier post.)

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