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USC Viterbi team integrating silicon anode and sulfur-based cathode for Lithium-sulfur battery with low fabrication cost

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USC Viterbi School of Engineering professor Chongwu Zhou and his research team have developed a silicon nanoparticle anode and a sulfur-based cathode with low fabrication cost and high electrode performance for rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries. sulfur (Li?S) Credit: ACS, Ge et al. Click to enlarge.

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Technical review outlines challenges for both batteries and fuel cells as basis for electric vehicles

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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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Stanford team reports 3D electrode structure addressing major limiting characteristics of sulfur cathodes for Li-S batteries

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The researchers suggested that their results showed that the inverse opal structure of hydrogen-reduced TiO 2 represents an effective strategy in improving the performance of lithium sulfur batteries. At a low current rate of C/20, they cells delivered high specific capacity of 1250 mAh/g without any noticeable overpotential.

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RIKEN team develops high-performance lithium-iodine battery system with higher energy density than conventional Li-ion

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Accordingly, new battery systems using new chemistries and system configurations are needed, which are capable of achieving higher energy density than the current ones.The alternative to make a less problematic storage system [than lithium-sulfur or lithium-O 2 ] is aqueous lithium batteries.

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Sulfur-rich organic cathode material for high-performance Li-S batteries

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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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IBM, Daimler researchers use quantum computer to simulate Li-sulfur battery chemistry

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Researchers at IBM and Daimler AG have used a quantum computer to model the dipole moment of three lithium-containing molecules, with an eye on moving closer to next-generation lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries. For reference, a single FCI iteration for pentacene takes ~1.17 —Jeannette Garcia. Rice, Tanvi P.

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Team at Naval Research Laboratory suggests design direction for structural batteries

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Cell-level specific-energy values versus corresponding elastic moduli of reported structural batteries, numbered by their references. Unfortunately, more energy-dense, li-based chemistries such as lithium-sulfur and lithium-air can also experience thermal runaway. Hopkins et al.

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