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WSU, PNNL researchers develop viable sodium battery

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O 2 –hard carbon full-cells with practical loading (>2.5 Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), with the intrinsic advantages of resource abundance and geographic uniformity, are desired alternative battery technology to Li-ion batteries (LIBs) for grid-scale energy storage and transportation applications. mAh cm –2 ) and lean electrolyte (?40

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Faradion and Phillips 66 to develop lower cost and higher-performing sodium-ion battery materials

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UK-based Faradion, a developer of sodium-ion battery technology ( earlier post ), and Phillips 66 have launched a new technical collaboration to develop lower-cost and higher-performing anode materials for sodium-ion batteries. —Ann Oglesby, Vice President, Energy Research & Innovation at Phillips 66. Earlier post.).

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Researchers identify AsC5 as promising anode material for sodium-ion batteries

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Researchers at Northeastern University in Shenyang, China, have identified a novel carbon arsenide (AsC 5 ) monolayer as a promising anode material for sodium-ion batteries (NIBs). A paper on their work is published in Journal of Power Sources. —Lu et al.

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Researchers improve the performance of sodium-ion batteries by using tailored carbon anodes with hierarchical porosity

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Researchers at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, have improved the performance of sodium-ion batteries ( earlier post ) by using tailor-made carbon materials with hierarchical porosity for the anode instead of common carbon-based anode materials. Wenzel et al. Energy Environ.

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Expanded graphite as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries

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Researchers at the University of Maryland, with colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago, report on a new method for expanding graphite for use as a superior anode for sodium-ion batteries in a paper in Nature Communications. to enlarge the interlayer lattice distance to accomodate the larger sodium ions.

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PNNL team develops sodium-manganese oxide electrodes for sodium-ion rechargeable batteries

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Sodium is seen by some as a promising alternative, but the sodium-sulfur batteries currently in use run at temperatures above 300 °C, making them less energy efficient and safe than batteries that run at ambient temperatures. Sodium-ion batteries have been discussed in the literature. for some time. —Cao et al.

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Univ. of Maryland team develops promising sodium-ion cathode material: FePO4/nanotube composite

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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). SWNT composite is a promising cathode material for viable sodium-ion batteries.

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