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MAY 22, 2023

A team led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher Yan Wang has developed a solvent-free process to manufacture lithium-ion battery electrodes that are greener, cheaper, and charge faster than electrodes currently on the market. WPI has filed a patent application on the manufacturing technology developed by Wang’s team.

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JULY 19, 2020

Researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a cobalt-free high-energy lithium-ion battery, eliminating the cobalt and opening the door to reducing the costs of producing batteries while boosting performance in some ways. graduate Wangda Li. energy lithium?ion

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

An international team led by scientists from the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials at the University of Wollongong in Australia has verified that the introduction of novel molecular orbital interactions can improve the structural stability of cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Resources.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Researchers at MIT, with a colleague from Tsinghua University, have developed a safety envelope for Li-ion batteries in electric vehicles by using a high accuracy finite element model of a pouch cell to produce more than 2,500 simulations and subsequently analyzing the data with Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. —Li et al.

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APRIL 21, 2021

With the world depending on lithium-ion batteries to power our devices, our vehicles and our infrastructure, battery performance, cost and safety have become more critical metrics for success and progress than ever. —Ed Williams.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A team from Shandong University of Technology in China has proposed a new process to recycle anode materials from spent lithium-ion batteries and to reuse the graphite. The graphite thoroughly separates from the copper foil; simultaneously, lithium was dissolved into the solution. C are 427.81 2020.229163.

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DECEMBER 29, 2018

Researchers at the University of Virginia (UVA) have devised a process for converting retired Li-ion battery anodes to graphene and graphene oxide (GO). So far, only 1% of end-of-life Li-ion batteries have been recycled. Here, graphite powders from end-of-life Li-ion battery anodes were used to fabricate graphene.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Amprius Technologies, a producer of 100% silicon anodes for Li-ion batteries ( earlier post ), announced a contract award with the US Army’s Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO). Amprius is the only company to offer a 100% silicon anode Li-Ion battery commercially.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The winner of the best paper in 2019 was an effort by researchers then at the University of Cambridge, Argonne National Laboratory and the Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, on the use of niobium tungsten oxides for high-rate lithium-ion battery storage. The paper (Griffith et al. ) Griffith et al.

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JUNE 17, 2018

Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) has launched the second phase of a major solid-state Li-ion battery project in a quest to achieve both high energy density and safety in batteries for electric vehicles. Partners participating in this project include: Toyota Motor Corporation; Nissan Motor Co.,

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Dürr is positioning itself in the growing Li-ion battery market as a supplier of production technology and is expanding its market access to battery manufacturers through a cooperation with Techno Smart, a leading Japanese manufacturer of coating systems. Dürr Megtec is part of the Clean Technology Systems division.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The new EPIC project coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is aimed at accelerating the drying of high-quality electrodes for lithium-ion batteries, increasing the energy efficiency of this process and, hence, reducing the cost of production. EPIC is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research with €3 million.

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JULY 18, 2019

Solid-state materials with high ionic conduction are necessary for many technologies, including all-solid-state lithium (Li)-ion batteries. The move to solid state batteries offers a number of advantages, including safety, but lithium ions in solids are less mobile than in liquids. the arrangement of atoms). …

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

Researchers from The University of Birmingham in the UK have demonstrated that the direct reuse of aluminum and copper current collectors from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is possible. The ever-increasing number of spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has presented a serious waste-management challenge.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Here, we combine two operando methods, Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) and neutron depth profiling (NDP), to identify the rate-limiting interface in operating Si-LiPON-LiCoO 2 solid-state batteries by mapping the contact potential difference (CPD) and the corresponding Li distributions. —Alec Talin, co-corresponding author.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new approach to cobalt-free Li-ion cathodes that avoids some of the problems with other low-cobalt cathode approaches. To make use of the best out of each of these three ions, the industry is now based on LiNi 1-y-z Mn y Co z O 2 with (1-y-z) 0.2). Croy, Brandon R.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

A team from Zhejiang A&F University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), and Stanford University have developed a binder-free, flexible, and free-standing electrode comprising an unprecedented 92% silicon content for Li-ion batteries. 1 (Li 15 Si 4 ). —Wang et al.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Engineers at the University of California San Diego and the University of California Los Angeles have developed an energy-efficient approach to regenerate Li-ion battery cathode materials (using LiCoO 2 as a model material) by hydrothermal treatment of cycled electrode particles followed by short annealing.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Researchers from Renmin University and Tsinghua University in China have developed a novel shape-memorized current collector (SMCC), which can successfully brake battery thermal runaway at the battery internal overheating status. 2c03645.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Charge and discharge profile of first and second cycles of Li 2 MnSiO 4 samples measured at 45 °C at 0.02C rate. Researchers from Tohoku University, Japan, have developed novel ultrathin Li 2 MnSiO 4 nanosheets for use as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries. Credit: ACS, Rangappa et al. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 7, 2013

Researchers at Fudan University with colleagues at the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight have developed a LiMn 2 O4 material for a Li-ion battery cathode that exhibits superfast charging capabilities. M Li 2 SO 4 aqueous solution. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters. Its charge capacity can be 59.3

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

Australian advanced materials technology company Talga Resources Ltd announced positive initial test results from the development of its graphene silicon lithium-ion anode in the UK. The Safevolt project is an enabler for industry wanting higher Li-ion battery capacity above the level of standard graphite (exceeding maximum 372 mAh/g).

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JULY 9, 2021

a global supplier of specialty and high-performance carbon black, has joined the HiQ-CARB consortium to provide the lithium-ion battery industry with sustainable and high-performance carbon additives. Lithium-Nickel-Manganese-Cobalt-Oxide) are electrically connected with each other and the current collector.

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DECEMBER 15, 2019

European Li-ion battery maker Northvolt has launched Revolt—a program devoted to recycling of lithium-ion batteries. The facility will target an initial recycling capacity 100 tons per year, handling NMC and NCA lithium-ion chemistries.

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APRIL 18, 2019

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have improved their recycling process that regenerates degraded cathodes from spent lithium-ion batteries. Illustration of the process to restore lithium ions to degraded NMC cathodes using eutectic molten salts at ambient pressure. —Zheng Chen.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The “Recycling Li-ion batteries for electric Vehicle” (ReLieVe) project, founded by Eramet, BASF and SUEZ, will receive a €4.7 The objective is to develop an innovative closed-loop process to recycle lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles and to enable the production of new lithium-ion batteries in Europe.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Goodenough, The University of Texas at Austin; M. Stanley Whittingham, Binghamton University, State University of New York; and Akira Yoshino, Asahi Kasei Corporation, for the development of lithium-ion batteries. The foundation of the lithium-ion battery was laid during the oil crisis in the 1970s.

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APRIL 3, 2022

Battery researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have developed a self-standing mesoporous silicon (Si) film anode for lithium-ion batteries. Silicon is a promising anode material for next-generation lithium-ion batteries due to its high theoretical specific capacity and safe electrochemical potential.

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JUNE 22, 2021

The energy density of traditional lithium-ion batteries is approaching a saturation point that cannot meet the demands of the future—in electric vehicles, for example. Lithium metal batteries can provide double the energy per unit weight when compared to lithium-ion batteries. —Rajendran et al.

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MAY 10, 2019

A team of researchers led by a group from the University of Maryland has. volts versus Li/Li +. Combining this cathode with a passivated graphite anode, the team created a 4V-class aqueous Li-ion full cell with an energy density of 460 Wh kg -1 of total composite electrode and about 100% Coulombic efficiency.

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MARCH 29, 2020

Researchers at the Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo have designed and synthesized a fluorinated cyclic phosphate solvent, 2-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-1,3,2-dioxaphospholane 2-oxide (TFEP), for use in lithium-ion batteries. © 2020 Yamada et al.

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JUNE 2, 2021

In January, the California Energy Commission (CEC) released a competitive solicitation ( GFO-20-308 ) to fund applied research and development (ARD) projects that improve, scale-up, and increase the technology readiness of high-value direct recycling processes for lithium-ion batteries. e00152 (open access).

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a nanometric graphite-like anode for sodium ion (Na + storage), formed by stacked graphene sheets functionalized only on one side, termed Janus graphene. Na is comparable to graphite for standard lithium ion batteries. 100 to 150 mA h g ?

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JULY 26, 2018

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, with colleagues from Argonne National Laboratory in the US and Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, UK, have identified a group of materials—niobium tungsten oxides—that could be used to make even higher power batteries. Griffith et al.

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APRIL 2, 2019

The Rice University lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan has used an environmentally friendly deep eutectic solvent to extract valuable elements from the metal oxides commonly used as cathodes in lithium-ion batteries. As a whole, recycling lithium-ion batteries is typically expensive and a risk to workers.

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MARCH 3, 2023

This is the first time that spherodized vein graphite materials were tested in a lithium-ion battery full cell. SEM image of spherodized material The tests were conducted at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), part of University of Warwick’s Energy Innovation Centre.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

The Army is working to replace all alkaline and nickel metal hydride field batteries with Li-ion batteries. “ The Army is developing hybrid vehicles for use on the battlefield, and that means they will also use Li-ion batteries. We want to push the voltage of Li-ion batteries higher. ”.

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