article thumbnail

Tohoku team develops new electrolyte to support rechargeable calcium batteries

Green Car Congress

Scientists from Tohoku University have developed a new fluorine-free calcium (Ca) electrolyte based on a hydrogen (monocarborane) cluster that could potentially realize rechargeable Ca batteries. High-energy-density and low-cost calcium (Ca) batteries have been proposed as ‘beyond-Li-ion’ electrochemical energy storage devices.

Recharge 418
article thumbnail

USC team develops novel organic redox flow battery for large-scale energy storage

Green Car Congress

Scientists at USC have developed a novel water-based Organic Redox Flow Battery (ORBAT) for lower cost, long lasting large-scale energy storage. These properties render quinone-based redox couples very attractive for high-efficiency metal-free rechargeable batteries, they found. Schematic of ORBAT. Click to enlarge. Electrochem.

article thumbnail

ARPA-E awards $43M to 19 energy storage projects to advance electric vehicle and grid technologies

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 19 new projects to receive a total of $43 million to develop breakthrough energy storage technologies and support promising small businesses. Advanced Management And Protection Of Energy-Storage Devices (AMPED).

article thumbnail

Hydro-Québec and Sony forming JV to develop large-scale Li-ion energy storage system for power grids

Green Car Congress

Hydro-Québec and Sony Corporation will establish a joint venture to research and develop a large-scale energy storage system for power grids. Furthermore, the energy storage system for such power supplies must be highly safe and reliable due to the need for an efficient and stable source of high capacity power.

article thumbnail

Electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ licenses ORNL cobalt-free battery tech

Green Car Congress

Stealth-mode electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ Inc. has exclusively licensed five battery technologies from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) designed to eliminate the use of cobalt metal in lithium-ion batteries. SPARKZ Inc. I look at this as a very strategic partnership.

article thumbnail

Rechargeable ultrahigh-capacity tellurium-aluminum batteries

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, with colleagues at Beijing Institute of Technology, have demonstrated the potential of rechargeable tellurium (Te) nanowire positive electrodes to construct ultrahigh-capacity rechargeable tellurium-aluminum batteries (TABs). A g -1 ) along with an initial 1.4

Recharge 261
article thumbnail

NASA selects proposals for advanced energy storage systems for future space missions: silicon-anode Li-ion and Li-S

Green Car Congress

NASA has selected four proposals for advanced Li-ion and Li-sulfur energy storage technologies that may be used to power the agencys future space missions. High Energy Density and Long-Life Li-S Batteries for Aerospace Applications, submitted by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Li-ion 261