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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Stanford University scientists have identified a new solid-state Li-ion electrolyte predicted to exhibit simultaneously fast ionic conductivity, wide electrochemical stability, low cost, and low mass density. sulfur (Li?B?S) 1 in Li 5 B 7 S 13 and 80 (?56, 1 in Li 9 B 19 S 33. V for Li 5 B 7 S 13 , 0.16

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MARCH 25, 2020

A team of scientists led by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has captured in real time how lithium ions move in lithium titanate (LTO), a fast-charging battery electrode material made of lithium, titanium, and oxygen.

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JUNE 7, 2021

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a solvent that results in a more environmentally friendly process to recover valuable materials from used lithium-ion batteries; supports a stable domestic supply chain for new batteries; and keeps old ones out of landfills. —Bai et al.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Li-Cycle Corp., North America’s largest capacity lithium-ion battery recycling company, announced that its Spoke 2 facility at Eastman Business Park (EBP) in Rochester, New York is now fully operational. Li-Cycle says that its recycling services eliminate these inefficiencies without creating any waste as a byproduct.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

High-energy nickel (Ni)–rich cathode will play a key role in advanced lithium (Li)–ion batteries, but it suffers from moisture sensitivity, side reactions, and gas generation. The gliding occurs as the battery charges and discharges—lithium ions depart and return to cathode, straining the crystal ever so slightly each time.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Li-Cycle Corp. a lithium-ion battery resource recovery company, will invest more than US$175 million in its first commercial lithium-ion battery recycling Hub at Eastman Business Park (EBP) in Rochester, New York. Earlier post.)

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MAY 1, 2020

Silicon is an appealing anode material for Li-ion batteries because it can hold about 10 times the electrical charge per gram compared to graphite. —Xiaolin Li. 2020) “Hierarchical porous silicon structures with extraordinary mechanical strength as high-performance lithium-ion battery anodes.”

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NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A team from metals research institute SWERIM in Sweden reports on a smelting reduction process to recover cobalt, nickel, manganese and lithium simultaneously from spent Li-ion batteries. The presence of slag may retain some Co, Ni, Mn, and Li in the slag due to the inherent nature of the slag. —Hu et al. 2020.228936.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Charge CCCV (C4V), a lithium ion battery technology company ( earlier post ), has introduced LiSER (Lithium Slim Energy Reserve), a novel cell technology platform. Attributes include: LiSER’s cobalt- and nickel-free lithium-ion battery cell technology promises an energy density of up to 228 Wh/kg and a power density of up to 2000 kW/kg.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

During the first charging process of a new Li-ion battery cell, trace amounts of electrolyte components decompose sacrificially to form what is called a solid–electrolyte interphase (SEI) on the anode surface. The inner SEI is continuous, dense and impermeable to electrolytes, and it is most probably composed of Li 2 O.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The winner of the best paper in 2019 was an effort by researchers then at the University of Cambridge, Argonne National Laboratory and the Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, on the use of niobium tungsten oxides for high-rate lithium-ion battery storage. The paper (Griffith et al. ) Griffith et al. Griffith, K.J.,

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APRIL 9, 2023

Especially for all solid-state lithium-ion batteries (lithium ASSBs), aspects of waste management and circular economy have not been addressed so far. Within such ASSBs, the use of solid electrolyte like garnet-type Li 6.5 La 3 Zr 1.5 O 12 (LLZTO) garnet electrolyte and LiNi 1/3 Mn 1/3 Co 1/3 O 2 (NMC) cathode. La 3 Zr 1.5 202202361

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Li-Cycle Holdings announced the start of commercial operations at its first Spoke recycling facility in Europe, located in Magdeburg, Germany. Each main line has the capacity to process up to 10,000 tonnes of lithium-ion battery material per year.

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DECEMBER 5, 2021

A new study by researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeking to identify the reasons that cause the performance of fast-charged lithium-ion batteries to degrade in EVs has found interesting chemical behavior of the anode as the battery is charged and discharged. —Pidaparthy et al.

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JULY 21, 2023

Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, is using an aluminum-foil-based anode in a solid-state Li-ion battery to create batteries with higher energy density and greater stability. negative electrode is combined with a Li 6 PS 5 Cl solid-state electrolyte and a LiNi 0.6

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Coordination compounds are molecules that possess a metal center bound to ligands (atoms, ions or molecules that donate electrons to the metal); these complexes can be neutral or charged. V for Li-, Na- and K-ion batteries. V for Li-, Na- and K-ion batteries. V in lithium-, sodium-, or potassium-based cells.

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APRIL 11, 2020

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) have developed a superionic halogen-rich Li-argyrodite (HRLA) that works well as a promising solid electrolyte (Li 5.5 This HRLA exhibits the highest Li-ion conductivity among Li-argyrodites (10.2 solid electrolyte at 25 °C. 9b04597.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The cost of Li-ion batteries has plunged some 97% since their introduction three decades ago—a rate similar to the drop in solar panel prices. The contributions of high-level mechanisms to the cost decline of 18650-sized lithium-ion battery cells between the late 1990s and early 2010s. —Jessika Trancik.

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APRIL 23, 2023

A team from the Korean government-funded research institute The Institute for Basic Science has developed a one-pot liquid extraction process that uses rotating, concentric-liquid reactors to stir, separate, and capture metal ions from spent lithium-ion batteries. A paper on their work appears in the journal Advanced Materials.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

Battery Resourcers, a vertically integrated lithium-ion battery recycling and engineered materials company, plans to open a commercial-scale, lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Covington, Ga. The site is strategically located near several EV manufacturing hubs and lithium-ion gigafactories. 2021.09.005.

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JANUARY 1, 2023

Researchers at La Sapienza in Rome are proposing silicon-based anodes, composed of micrometric Si, graphite (MAG), LiI-Li 3 PS 4 solid electrolyte (LPSI), and carbon nanofiber (CNF), which can be prepared by straightforward manual grinding. A paper on their work is published in ChemSusChem. Branchi, M., Maresca, G., Tsurumaki, A.,

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MARCH 1, 2022

Panasonic to begin production of 4680 Li-ion cells for EVs in FY 2023. Tesla unveiled a 4680-format prototype cell in 2020.

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APRIL 5, 2021

ppm) with a nominal Li/Mg selectivity >45 million. ppm) and an abundance of interfering ions (i.e., 13000 ppm of sodium, magnesium, calcium, and potassium ions, among others). Instead, the lithium concentration and the ratio of lithium to other multivalent ions, such as Mg 2+ and Ca 2+ , are the key factors to consider.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

China dominates BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking in 2020, having quickly surpassed Japan and Korea that were leaders for the majority of the previous decade. While Europe is launching initiatives to capture more of the raw material value chain, the US is slower to react on this.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Octillion Power Systems, a global provider of advanced lithium-ion batteries, has moved to a new US headquarters in Richmond, California. With demand for lithium-ion batteries continuing to grow, the new facility gives us a lot more space to expand. Earlier post.) The company’s North and South American operations will be based there.

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MAY 8, 2023

Crystal structure of soft solid co-crystalline (Adpn) 2 LiPF 6 electrolyte a, Representation of the basic structural unit of (Adpn) 2 LiPF 6 showing tetra-coordinated Li⁺ ions with four Adpn molecules, each shared with a second symmetry-equivalent Li atom; PF 6⁻ anions occupy the available interstitial pocket in the crystal structure.

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MAY 17, 2023

Ionic Mineral Technologies, a developer of advanced silicon anode battery materials, launched its Generation 1 Ionisil nano-silicon product for Li-ion cell manufacturers. Earlier post.) This technology can increase the capacity at the anode level by >100% compared to graphite batteries.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Zenlabs Energy, an advanced lithium-ion cell company, announced that Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has successfully tested more than 1,000 charge-discharge cycles from its high-energy Silicon anode pouch cells. For the last 30 years, the lithium-ion industry has used graphite as the preferred anode material. Earlier post.).

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JULY 14, 2019

Ltd, introduced its cobalt-free lithium-ion battery cell (NMx) and four-element lithium-ion battery cell (NCMA). New battery company SVOLT Energy Technology Co. Ltd, whose precursor was the Battery Business Unit of Great Wall Motor Co. SVOLT product roadmap.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Under the agreement, CATL will become Honda’s partner in the field of lithium-ion EV batteries. CATL will guarantee the supply to Honda of about 56 GWh of lithium-ion EV batteries before 2027. Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.,

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AUGUST 30, 2022

A research team at Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has developed a high-capacity Li-metal battery with improved rate performance and stability using a one-dimensional Li-confinable porous hollow carbon host. However, these hosts suffer from unwanted Li growth on their surface (i.e., Kang et al.

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JANUARY 1, 2023

The Lion Electric Company recently completed production of its first lithium-ion battery pack at the company’s battery manufacturing facility located in Mirabel, Québec. Final certification of the first battery pack is expected in the first quarter of 2023, followed by a gradual ramp up of production in 2023.

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APRIL 21, 2021

OXIS has been collaborating with European manufacturers on the development of solid-state Li-S technology for almost 4 years. With an identical manufacturing process to conventional Li-S and Li-ion, the delivery of the Quasi Solid-State batteries is achievable by late Autumn 2021, the company claims.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

An all-solid-state lithium battery using inorganic solid electrolytes requires safety assurance and improved energy density, both of which are issues in large-scale applications of lithium-ion batteries. Operational difficulty of all-solid-state batteries using them generally lies in the construction of the electrode-electrolyte interface.

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APRIL 21, 2021

Mercedes-Benz is switching to a more powerful generation of lithium-ion batteries in its electric buses ( earlier post ). The two new eCitaro G buses for ÜSTRA feature second-generation NMC lithium-ion batteries. The first eCitaro G articulated buses have now been delivered to Hanover’s transport operator, ÜSTRA.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

While the lithium-ion battery is dominant in battery-electric vehicles, NiMH batteries are still the most common in full hybrid vehicles (HEVs), according to a new report—“ Full Hybrid Electric Vehicle Markets 2021-2041 ”—from IDTechEx. It is also much more technologically mature and lower cost than Li-ion.

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APRIL 16, 2022

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence has launched a Lithium-ion Battery Raw Material Price Index. The index is published every month for the following lithium ion battery chemistries: NCM High-Nickel (8 and 9 series blends, e.g. NCM 811, NCM 9). NCM Mid-Nickel (5, 6, and 7 series blends, e.g., NCM 523, NCM 622). LFP (lithium iron phosphate).

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