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OCTOBER 22, 2013

SolidEnergy says that its Solid Polymer Ionic Liquid technology can deliver energy densities upwards of 800 Wh/kg—twice the densities of advanced startup batteries and four times the density of current conventional batteries. So what’s wrong with batteries today? Second is energy density.

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JULY 26, 2017

Toyota, which has been working on solid-state batteries for EVs for a number of years ( earlier post ), is in the news with a report by the Wall Street Journal that it will be ready to commercialize a solid-state battery by 2022. —Kermana et al. —Kermana et al.

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MARCH 26, 2018

Researchers led by a team from MIT, with colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), BMW Group, and Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a fundamentally new approach to alter ion mobility and stability against oxidation of lithium ion conductors—a key component of rechargeable batteries—using lattice dynamics.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Pellion Technologies, a startup commercializing magnesium-ion battery technology ( earlier post ), announced an investment by Motorola Solutions. Magnesium-ion batteries theoretically could offer good electrochemical performance, while being safer and less expensive than Li-ion batteries. Mg 2+ rather than Li + ).

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AUGUST 17, 2010

24M Technologies launched as a new venture focused on commercializing next-generation energy storage systems based on technology out of A123 Systems. 24M will initially focus on grid storage applications. 24M will initially focus on grid storage applications. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Researchers at MIT have improved a proposed liquid battery system that could enable renewable energy sources to compete with conventional power plants. But with the new formulation, with one electrode made of lithium and the other a mixture of lead and antimony, the battery can operate at temperatures of 450 to 500 ?C.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

At every stage of the battery development process, new technologies must be tested for months or even years to determine how long they will last. First, batteries are tested. A small training dataset of batteries cycled to failure is used both to train the early outcome predictor and to set BO hyperparameters.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

Australian startup Energy Renaissance, backed by engineering group UGL, says that it has secured support from the Northern Territory Government to build a 1GWh Li-ion battery factory in Darwin. Energy Renaissance says it has an exclusive partnership with 24M, a developer of semi-solid lithium-ion batteries.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The network has two unique features: 1) it allows for high capacitance (up to 400 F/g) energy storage in a simple film configuration without the need of high-surface-area nanostructures; 2) it is unstable in water, but becomes extremely stable in electrolyte with high ionic strength. Wh per US dollar for lithium ion batteries.

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JULY 25, 2011

A team at MIT, led by Carl V. The carbon nanofiber electrodes are substantially more porous than other carbon electrodes, and can therefore more efficiently store the solid oxidized lithium (Li 2 O 2 ) that fills the pores as the battery discharges. Energy Environ. Click to enlarge. —Mitchell et al. ” Resources.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Photo: 24M Technologies MIT spinout and battery maker 24M Technologies today debuted a new direct-material battery recycling process for EV batteries and battery storage. The approach also improves the batteries’ energy density, safety, and recyclability.

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APRIL 5, 2024

The stretchable battery is gaining momentum in the electronics industry, where it might one day serve as an energy storage medium in fitness trackers, wearable electronics, and even smart clothing. A battery that only flexes would feel uncomfortable to wear.” The wire battery, which measures 1.4

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AUGUST 16, 2013

MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable, membrane-less hydrogen bromine laminar flow battery with high power density. For applications that require the storage of large quantities of energy economically and efficiently, flow batteries have received renewed attention. Credit: Braff et al.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Researchers at MIT say that a benign virus could be the next step in improving lithium-air battery technology. In this.'

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

A team of Department of Energy (DOE) scientists at the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has discovered the fastest magnesium-ion solid-state conductor, a major step towards making solid-state magnesium-ion batteries that are both energy dense and safe. —Canepa et al.

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OCTOBER 23, 2014

Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a new manufacturing process for the batch-wise coating of Li-ion battery electrode foils that they say can boost the conventional processing rate by about a factor of three to 100 meters per minute. Batteries Manufacturing'

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APRIL 30, 2014

Ambri, developer of Liquid Metal Battery grid-scale energy storage technology, closed a $35-million Series C equity financing. The research on campus has been supported by the US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program, Total, the Deshpande Center, and the Chesonis Family Foundation. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 13, 2011

Last week’s 4 th Symposium on Energy Storage: Beyond Lithium-ion , hosted by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), brought together researchers tackling the “Beyond Li-ion” problem by working on a number of different platforms (e.g., However, Mg-ion batteries have suffered from a number of limitations.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

A team at MITEI (MIT Energy Initiative) has found that hydrogen-generated electricity can be a cost-competitive option for backing up wind and solar. Low- and zero-carbon alternatives to greenhouse-gas emitting peaker plants are in development, such as arrays of lithium-ion batteries and hydrogen power generation.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Finding is a step on the way to solid-state batteries Two factors dominate the development of batteries for electric vehicles: [continued] The post Researchers Develop Promising Approach To Smaller, More Powerful, Safer Electric Vehicle Batteries appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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MARCH 10, 2010

NanoeXa , a designer and manufacturer of advanced Lithium-ion battery materials for a range of applications, is using its Quantum Simulation Software (QSS)—based on a quantum-simulated database of materials including structures and properties, and a simulation engine—rapidly to identify and then to deliver improved lithium-ion battery materials.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

The alliance has previously granted four sublicenses to these technologies. In return, LiFePO 4 +C Licensing AG receives rights to two recent battery material patents from A123. All litigations will be dismissed and a license under these patents will be granted to A123, as agreed by the parties, under the settlement. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Earlier post.) per gallon.

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MAY 26, 2011

Yet-Ming Chiang (co-founder of A123 Systems), report on their development of a new energy storage concept—a semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) combining the high energy density of rechargeable batteries with the flexible and scalable architecture of fuel cells and flow batteries—in a paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

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JUNE 10, 2016

The Materials Project, a Google-like database of material properties aimed at accelerating innovation ( earlier post ), has released an enormous trove of data to the public, giving scientists working on batteries, fuel cells, photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and other advanced materials a powerful tool to explore new avenues of research.

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JULY 18, 2011

Researchers at MIT, led by Prof. Gerbrand Ceder, have performed a high-throughput ab initio analysis of phosphates as Li-ion cathode materials, computing the voltage, capacity (gravimetric and volumetric), specific energy, energy density, stability, and safety of thousands of phosphate compounds. Credit: ACS, Hautier et al.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The cost of Li-ion batteries has plunged some 97% since their introduction three decades ago—a rate similar to the drop in solar panel prices. Their work suggests that there is still considerable room for further improvement in electrochemical battery technologies, she says. —Jessika Trancik.

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MARCH 11, 2023

The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology. Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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MARCH 24, 2021

The cost of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used for phones, laptops, and cars has fallen significantly over the last three decades, and has been a major driver of the rapid growth of those technologies. We also consider additional performance characteristics including energy density and specific energy.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 27, 2006

The MIT Technology Review reports plug-in hybrids a big 2006 energy story: "The plug-in hybrid-vehicle era begins. For years, hobbyists and a few companies have been adding bigger battery packs to hybrid vehicles, which have both battery power and an internal combustion engine, and plugging them into electrical outlets.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Many materials deemed critical by the DOE are used in modern clean energy technologies—such as wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, and energy-efficient lighting. Industry partners that have joined to help advance CMI developed technologies include General Electric; OLI Systems, Inc.; Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

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. NASA Battery Tech to Deliver for the Grid EnerVenue’s nickel-hydrogen battery cells are 1.8 Number one? Heat pumps.

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JUNE 1, 2012

The Critical Materials Hub builds on the Department’s Critical Materials Strategy report ( earlier post ), which addresses the use of rare earths and other critical materials in clean energy components, products, and processes. —Energy Secretary Steven Chu. These critical materials are also at risk for supply disruptions.

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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. Advanced Li-ion and multivalent ion batteries. Chiang, MIT colleague W.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

James Clark School of Engineering and College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, brought together by Professor Reza Ghodssi, is using the Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) to build a new generation of small, powerful and highly efficient batteries and fuel cells. —Reza Ghodssi.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

The US Department of Energy will award more than $175 million over the next three to five years to accelerate the development and deployment of a range of advanced vehicle technologies. Metal Oxygen Separation Technologies Inc. valve train vs. bearings). Ford Motor Company. Light-weighting materials. Grantee Description.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Stealth-mode battery start-up 24M has introduced its new semi-solid lithium-ion cell. By 2020 our battery costs will be less than $100 a kilowatt-hour (kWh). We’re emerging at the right time with the right technology, ” said Throop Wilder, 24M CEO. A battery having a first charge capacity at first C-rate, for example, 0.5

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