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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Yi Cui has developed nanoparticle copper hexacyanoferrate (CuHCF) battery cathode materials that demonstrate long cycle life and high power for use in grid storage applications. Stationary energy storage systems that can operate for many cycles, at high power, with high round-trip energy efficiency, and at low cost are required.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Projects will work to lower emissions by leading the expansion of EV charging stations to facilitate the transition from fossil fuel-powered vehicles to electric vehicles. Fiscal Year 2021 Low Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Vehicle Technologies RD&D DE-FOA-0002475. Native Sun Community Power Development. North Carolina State University.

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JUNE 13, 2021

Ltd (KMS) to pursue strategic opportunities for the advancement of low-cost, scalable silicon anodes through leveraging the developments in silicon technologies from both parties. The agreement would help accelerate NEO’s commercialization plans of its silicon anode technology. Korea Metal Silicon Co.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering.

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JULY 10, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $24 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote promising energy technologies. Louis , Mo.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award $42 million to 12 projects to strengthen the domestic supply chain for advanced batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs). Project K is developing and commercializing a potassium-ion battery, which operates similarly to Li-ion batteries. Award amount: $3,198,085).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

FCET ), a start-up energy technology company that has developed a novel, low-cost solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system, announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with NextGenPropulsion, LLC (NGP) indicating NGP’s intent to purchase FCET fuel cells for NGP light-rail trains and freight locomotives.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

A team led by Dr. Michael Grätzel at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland has developed a highly efficient and low-cost water-splitting cell combining an advanced perovskite tandem solar cell and a bi-functional Earth-abundant catalyst. Currently, perovskite instability limits the cell lifetime.)

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JUNE 14, 2016

announced that it is currently researching and developing a Solid Oxide Fuel-Cell (SOFC)-powered system using bio-ethanol as the on-board hydrogen source. Nissan said it planned commercialization for the technology in 2020. Nissan Motor Co., Because of their fuel-flexibility (i.e., Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JULY 24, 2020

Researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Texas at Austin, with colleagues at the US Army Research Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have developed a thick cobalt-free high voltage spinel (LiNi 0.5 The paper on their work is published in the Journal of Power Sources.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

Researchers at the University of Delaware, with a colleague at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, have developed a composite catalyst—nickel nanoparticles supported on nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes—that exhibits hydrogen oxidation activity in alkaline electrolyte similar to platinum-group metals.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

They will incorporate experts in hydrodynamics, structural dynamics, control systems, power electronics, grid connections, and performance optimization. The University of Michigan. The University of Michigan proposes the RAFT concept as a solution for hydrokinetic energy harvesting. Tidal Power Tug - $4,500,000.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a low-cost, non-precious metal cobalt phosphide (CoP) catalyst catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh environment of a commercial device.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

The Clean Carbon Conductors team, with members from Rice University and DexMat Co, is designing enhanced-conductivity CNTs by improving fiber quality, alignment, packing density, and by electrochemically doping the CNTs. Each winning team has earned a $25,000 cash prize and a stipend for third-party conductivity testing in Stage 2.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Israel-based Electreon, a developer ofin-road wireless electric vehicle charging technology for shared, commercial and passenger vehicles, and ASPIRE (Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification), an NSF-funded engineering research center, are launching a joint demonstration project.

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

In December 2013, Lomiko reported on a successful conclusion to Phase I of its Graphene Supercapacitor Project which involved Graphene Laboratories and Stony Brook University. Graphene ESD has been formed to commercialize the technology and bring the graphene-based energy storage devices to market. Graphene ESD Corp.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Johnson Matthey (JM), Echion Technologies , (Echion), Britishvolt (BV) and University College London (UCL) are grant recipients in the latest round (Round 4) of the Faraday Battery Challenge in the UK. Echion is a high-growth company spun-out of Cambridge University in 2017 to commercialize niobium oxide-based materials for anodes.

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JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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MARCH 11, 2021

LiNa Energy is commercializing a safe, ~$50kWh (at mass manufacturing), cobalt-free battery platform that is suited to grid storage and the electrification of transportation. The battery is constructed from easily sourced, low-cost materials and does not contain any cobalt or lithium.

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JUNE 16, 2016

Researchers from Griffith University in Australia and Peking University in China have synthesized low-cost, hierarchically porous, and nitrogen-doped loofah sponge carbon (N-LSC) derived from the loofah sponge via a simple calcining process and applied it as a multifunctional blocking layer for Li–S, Li–Se, and Li–I 2 batteries.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

As part of the FC Komp funding project of the German government, which runs until 2021, Pierburg GmbH, a member of the Rheinmetall Group, is currently involved in the development of a highly integrated high-power fuel cell driveline. The blower was developed in both a low- and high-voltage version with up to 800 volts.

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JULY 20, 2020

Solid-oxide-fuel-cell manufacturer Bloom Energy is entering the commercial hydrogen market by introducing hydrogen-powered fuel cells and electrolyzers that produce renewable hydrogen. The Bloom Energy Servers are a proven market leader in clean, reliable, and resilient on-site power.

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APRIL 8, 2020

These projects will work to develop timely, commercially viable fusion energy, with the goal to increase the number and performance levels of lower-cost fusion concepts. Commercial fusion technology has long been viewed as an ideal energy source. Winning BETHE projects are: Category A: Development of Lower-Cost Concepts.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Direct air capture systems and retrofits to existing industrial and power plant exhausts to capture carbon dioxide and use it to make alternative products or permanently sequester it deep underground.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

University of Sydney team advances rechargeable zinc-air batteries with bimetallic oxide–graphene hybrid electrocatalyst. Zinc-air batteries are powered by zinc metal and oxygen from the air. Zinc-air batteries are powered by zinc metal and oxygen from the air. Amorphous Fe 0.5 mA cm −2 at 0.6 O x and Ni 0.33 O x and Ni 0.33

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MAY 14, 2014

Source: Power Japan Plus. Start-up Power Japan Plus announced plans to commercialize a dual-carbon battery technology, which it calls the Ryden dual carbon battery. Source: Power Japan Plus. Ishihara and the university. Capacity vs. cycle number. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. V with high efficiency.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

This project will expand Anovion’s existing manufacturing capacity in Sanborn, NY—notably the only qualified US source of battery-grade synthetic graphite commercially shipping product today. Anovion’s selected site has critical infrastructure in place that will allow for an accelerated timeline for the construction of the facility.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Echion Technologies, a spin-off from the University of Cambridge developing niobium oxide-based materials for anodes, has closed a £10-million (US$13.8 The funds will also be used to strengthen customer support, commercial and R&D operations. million) Series A funding round. Twice the volumetric capacity of LTO anodes.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Solid Power Inc. Solid Power’s technology combines an exceptionally high capacity cathode, a high conductivity solid-state electrolyte and a lithium-metal anode. The result is ultra-high-energy, safe and low-cost solid-state rechargeable batteries. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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JULY 2, 2018

SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. AOI 1 supports the following goals and objectives: Improve cell performance (power density).

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JULY 13, 2016

Alphabet Energy, a startup commercializing low-cost, efficient thermoelectric materials for power generation leveraging technology initially developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( earlier post , earlier post ), has closed a $23.5-million million Series C round of financing.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. If successful, the team will construct a 500 kW building block for a DC fast charger that is at least four times the power density of todays installed units.

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MARCH 5, 2013

(A) Block diagram for providing power to an electrochemical cell (EC), using a photovoltaic (PV) device via direct coupling, as well as (B) experimental examples, including an interdigitated contact geometry that minimizes solution resistance. The original demonstration leaf in 2011 had low efficiencies, converting less than 4.7%

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MARCH 23, 2019

HITEMMP projects include: Michigan State University. Michigan State University’s HIPPED technology is a highly scalable heat exchanger suited for high-efficiency power generation systems that use supercritical CO 2 as a working fluid and operate at high temperature and high pressure. Michigan Technological University.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

ASCEND projects work to develop innovative, lightweight, and ultra-efficient all-electric powertrain with advanced thermal management systems that help enable efficient net-zero carbon emissions for single-aisle passenger commercial aircraft. Compact Propulsion Engine Optimized with Waste Heat Recovery (CO-POWER); $2,815,760.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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