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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Carbon is seen as an attractive potential cathode material for aprotic (non-aqueous) Lithium-air batteries, which are themselves of great interest for applications such as in electric vehicles because of the cells’ high theoretical specific energy. A team at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) led by Prof.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Generalized form of the molten air battery. Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht have introduced the principles of a new class rechargeable molten air batteries that offer amongst the highest intrinsic electric energy storage capabilities. Licht et al. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.]

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JUNE 12, 2012

The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.

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MAY 4, 2011

Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory in the US and the University of St. Andrews in the UK report on the use of activated Lithium-metal-oxides as catalytic electrodes for high-capacity lithium-air batteries in the journal Electrochemical Solid-State Letters. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

Researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland report in a paper in the journal Nature Materials that titanium carbide (TiC) may represent a viable, stable cathode for rechargeable lithium-air batteries. Li-air batteries are receiving intense interest because of their extremely high theoretical specific energy.

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MAY 24, 2013

Cycling behavior of TEGDME-based electrolyte lithium?oxygen A team including researchers from Hanyang University (South Korea) and University of Rome Sapienza (Italy) have shown that operating temperature plays an important role in the performance of Lithium-air batteries. Credit: ACS, Park et al. 10 to 70 °C.

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JULY 23, 2012

Very high energy density rechargeable lithium air (or Li-O 2 ) batteries are of great interest for future electrified transportation because at best their practical energy density could approach that of current gasoline engined vehicles (after factoring in tank-to-wheel efficiencies). Earlier post.).

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MAY 27, 2014

Last year, researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht introduced the principles of a new class rechargeable molten air batteries that offer amongst the highest intrinsic electric energy storage capabilities. The iron molten air battery; illustration of the charge/discharge in molten carbonate.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

optioned a PNNL-developed method for building titanium oxide and carbon structures that greatly improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries. The new material stores twice as much electricity at high charge/discharge rates as current lithium ion batteries, and creates increased battery capacity and a longer cycle life.

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JUNE 21, 2013

Lithium-air batteries, with a theoretical gravimetric energy density of ?3500 air battery technology, it is critical to understand the reactions involving CO 2 and the chemistry of Li 2 CO 3 within a Li?air —Lim et al. ion chemistry and the latter has stability problems. Thus, DMSO might be optimal. —Lim et al.

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JULY 29, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $60 million to 24 research and development projects aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars and light- and heavy-duty trucks. (DE-FOA-0002420) Novel Organosulfur-Based Electrolytes for Safe Operation of High Voltage Lithium-ion Batteries Over a Wide Operating Temperature.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

The introduction of hydrogen into the engine virtually eliminates fuel emissions while greatly reducing the emissions of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. In 2007, Vorbeck signed a worldwide license agreement with Princeton University for a patented method from the the Aksay Labs for manufacturing graphene at commercial scale.

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MAY 13, 2013

Researchers at MIT, the University of Pittsburgh, and Sandia National Laboratories have used transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging to observe the electrochemical oxidation of Li 2 O 2 , providing insights into the rate-limiting processes that govern charge in Li–O 2 cells. —Yang Shao-Horn.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

The study was financially supported by BMW within the project ABILE (Air Batteries with Ionic Liquid Electrolytes). Cycling tests were carried out within limited capacity regimes of 500 mAh g carbon -1 and 1000 mAh g carbon -1 applying a specific current of 50 mA g carbon -1 and 100 mA g carbon -1 , respectively.

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APRIL 27, 2017

Lithium-air batteries are looked to by many as a very high-energy density next-generation energy storage solution for electric vehicles. One reaction that hasn’t been fully explained is how oxygen blows bubbles inside a lithium-air battery when it discharges. The paper is published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

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MARCH 24, 2015

In his remarks made at Stanford University in November 2014 during the award of the third Science Award for Electrochemistry to Dr. Vanessa Wood, noted that he saw “ great potential ” in solid-state batteries. US Patent Applications Nº 20150044581: Solid State Lithium-Air Based Battery Cell. Earlier post.). Batteries'

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JULY 25, 2016

An international team from MIT, Argonne National Laboratory and Peking University has demonstrated a lab-scale proof-of-concept of a new type of cathode for Li-air batteries that could overcome the current drawbacks to the technology, including a high potential gap (>1.2 V) It also displays stable cycling performance (only 1.8%

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DECEMBER 29, 2010

Also on the list of five is the arrival of advanced batteries, including air batteries (e.g., Lithium air), but targeted initially at small devices. Kyoto University and IBM Research - Tokyo have developed a system that can simulate a broad range of urban transport situations involving millions of vehicles.

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OCTOBER 30, 2015

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a working laboratory demonstrator of a lithium-oxygen battery which has very high energy density, is more than 90% efficient, and, to date, can be recharged more than 2000 times, showing how several of the problems holding back the development of these devices could be solved.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (N-CNTs) uses as cathode materials for lithium-air batteries show a specific discharge capacity of 66 mAh g -1 , which is about 1.5 times as that of CNTs, according to a new study by a team from the University of Western Ontario (Canada). 2011.04.004.

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AUGUST 26, 2018

Chemists from the University of Waterloo have successfully resolved two of the most challenging issues surrounding lithium-oxygen batteries, and in the process created a working battery with near 100% coulombic efficiency. Thermodynamics and configuration of the Li-O 2 cell. (A)

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Researchers from the Nanomaterials and Energy Group at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, report the development of graphene nanosheet (GNS) cathode materials for non-aqueous lithium-oxygen (Li-air) batteries that show a capacity of 8,705.9

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