Commercial, Sodium and Texas

Na-ion battery developer Faradion collaborating with battery manufacturer AMTE Power

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MARCH 18, 2021

a leader in non-aqueous sodium-ion battery technolog ( earlier post ), announced a collaboration which combines Faradion’s IP with AMTE Power’s design and manufacturing capabilities. AMTE Power has branded its sodium-ion product “Ultra Safe” due to its improved safety and enhanced thermal stability.

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Manufacturer Sodium Batteries Battery

Univ. of Texas researchers propose lithium- or sodium-water batteries as next generation of high-capacity battery technology; applicable for EVs and grid storage

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APRIL 1, 2011

Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. The present sodium-sulfur battery operates above 300 °C. Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery.

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Sodium Li-ion Water Texas

UT Austin team identifies promising new cathode material for sodium-ion batteries: eldfellite

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Professor John Goodenough, the inventor of the lithium-ion battery, and his team at the University of Texas at Austin have identified a new cathode material made of the nontoxic and inexpensive mineral eldfellite (NaFe(SO 4 ) 2 ), presenting a significant advancement in the quest for a commercially viable sodium-ion battery.

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Sodium Austin Li-ion Lithium Ion

Skyonic awards $117M construction contract to Toyo-Thai-USA for commercial-scale carbon capture and utilization plant

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AUGUST 18, 2013

Skyonic Corporation, developer of the SkyMine mineralization process which can serve as a potential replacement for existing scrubber technology ( earlier post ), recently awarded the $117M construction contract for the Capitol SkyMine plant in San Antonio, Texas, to Toyo-Thai-USA Corporation (TTUS).

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Argonne Lab working with 3 nuclear companies on next-generation reactor projects

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JANUARY 8, 2015

Argonne-involved projects are: AREVA is partnering with TerraPower Company (working to commercialize Traveling Wave Reactors, TWR), Argonne and Texas A&M University to conduct thermal hydraulic modeling and simulations and an experimental investigation for liquid metal-cooled fast reactor fuel assemblies.

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U-M leads new DOE-funded research center for ceramic ion conductors; MUSIC

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Critical barriers remain before widespread commercialization can be realized—many of which center around the unique mechanical properties that emerge at solid-solid interfaces in electrochemical cells. Those include long-duration energy storage and hydrogen fuel cells.

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Lithium Ion Energy Storage Michigan Universal

DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (TX). This project will manage the fluctuations in wind power in the large Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) transmission grid through better system monitoring capabilities, enhanced operator visualization, and improved load management. 24,063,978. 48,127,957.

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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. The University of Texas at Austin.

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Supplies Ni-Li Carbon Universal

Researchers devise electrode architectures to prevent dendrite formation in solid-state batteries

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MARCH 17, 2021

So far, the current densities that have been achieved in experimental solid-state batteries have been far short of what would be needed for a practical commercial rechargeable battery. In a second version, the team introduced a very thin layer of liquid sodium potassium alloy in between a solid lithium electrode and a solid electrolyte.

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Batteries Battery MIT Lithium Ion

Goodenough and UT team report new strategy for all-solid-state Na or Li battery suitable for EVs; plating cathodes

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MARCH 1, 2017

lithium, sodium or potassium) on a copper–carbon cathode current collector at a voltage of more than 3.0 Finally, sodium is cheaper than lithium and widely available from the oceans, which makes a sodium battery preferable to a lithium battery, but insertion hosts for Na + have lower capacities than insertion hosts for Li +.

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Li-ion Sodium Austin Batteries

Researchers synthesize new Li-S cathode based on “carbon compartments”

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Researchers from Texas A&M and Purdue have developed a new cathode material for Li-S batteries based on what they call carbon compartments (CCs)—conductive 3D carbon mesostructures that possess macro- and meso-pores that allow for high loading of sulfur nanoparticles and enhanced electrolyte-sulfur contact.

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Carbon Sodium Lithium Sulfur Batteries

ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation

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JUNE 19, 2015

will advance improved commercial seed cultivars. Texas A&M AgriLife Research. The C-TEC uses an array of electrochemical cells to produce electricity in a sodium ion expansion cycle driven by external combustion. Finally, Chromatin Inc. Purdue University. GENSETS Solid State Devices Awards. Lead organization. Description.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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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). Commercializing 3D Printable Feedstocks for the Advanced Manufacturing of Energy Products, $300,000 MilliporeSigma, St. Louis , Mo. Tempe, Ariz.

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Na-ion battery developer Faradion collaborating with battery manufacturer AMTE Power

Univ. of Texas researchers propose lithium- or sodium-water batteries as next generation of high-capacity battery technology; applicable for EVs and grid storage

UT Austin team identifies promising new cathode material for sodium-ion batteries: eldfellite

Skyonic awards $117M construction contract to Toyo-Thai-USA for commercial-scale carbon capture and utilization plant

Argonne Lab working with 3 nuclear companies on next-generation reactor projects

U-M leads new DOE-funded research center for ceramic ion conductors; MUSIC

DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

Researchers devise electrode architectures to prevent dendrite formation in solid-state batteries

Goodenough and UT team report new strategy for all-solid-state Na or Li battery suitable for EVs; plating cathodes

Researchers synthesize new Li-S cathode based on “carbon compartments”

ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation

DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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