Model Predicts Carbon Components’ Performance as Electrodes
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Rice University have created a theoretical model that predicts how carbon components will perform as anodes in lithium-ion batteries. The...
View ArticleGiant Lithium Titanate Battery to Be Connected to Grid in UK
The UK’s first 2 MW lithium titanate battery will be connected to the electrical grid later this year, as part of new research as a part of a research effort to tackle energy storage challenges. The...
View ArticleBacteria Produce Unique Battery Electrode Material
A group of scientists at the Okayama University, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Kyoto University has shown that iron oxide nanoparticles produced by bacteria in groundwater has a potential to be...
View ArticleResearchers Get Closer to Making Pure Lithium Anode
Scientists at Stanford University report that they have taken a significant step toward designing a pure lithium anode. All batteries have three basic components: an electrolyte to provide electrons,...
View ArticleLiquid Alloy Electrode Improves Sodium-Beta Battery Performance
A paper published in Nature Communications (see footnote) describes an electrode made of a liquid metal alloy that enables sodium-beta batteries to operate at significantly lower temperatures. The new...
View ArticleTesla, Panasonic to Build Battery ‘Gigafactory’ in U.S.
Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors, Inc. have signed an agreement that lays out their cooperation on the construction of a large-scale battery manufacturing plant in the United States, known as the...
View ArticleGraphene Framework Boosts Energy Density of Supercapacitors
Scientists at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have used a holey graphene framework to significantly boost the energy density of...
View ArticleX-Rays Track Chemical Reactions in EV Battery Materials
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory are using a new method to track the electrochemical reactions in a common electric vehicle battery material under operating...
View ArticleGarnet Electrolyte Based Safe Wins NASA Funding
The University of Maryland Energy Research Center faculty, Eric Wachsman, Liangbing Hu, and Chunsheng Wang have been awarded funding from NASA for their Garnet Electrolyte Based Safe, lithium-sulfur...
View ArticleHalide Salts Make Lithium Batteries More Durable
Chemical engineers at Cornell University used halide salts to create safer, longer-lasting lithium batteries. Adding certain halide salts to liquid electrolytes spontaneously creates nanostructured...
View ArticleGiant Lithium Titanate Battery to Be Connected to Grid in UK
The UK’s first 2 MW lithium titanate battery will be connected to the electrical grid later this year, as part of new research as a part of a research effort to tackle energy storage challenges. The...
View ArticleBacteria Produce Unique Battery Electrode Material
A group of scientists at the Okayama University, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Kyoto University has shown that iron oxide nanoparticles produced by bacteria in groundwater has a potential to be...
View ArticleResearchers Get Closer to Making Pure Lithium Anode
Scientists at Stanford University report that they have taken a significant step toward designing a pure lithium anode. All batteries have three basic components: an electrolyte to provide electrons,...
View ArticleLiquid Alloy Electrode Improves Sodium-Beta Battery Performance
A paper published in Nature Communications (see footnote) describes an electrode made of a liquid metal alloy that enables sodium-beta batteries to operate at significantly lower temperatures. The new...
View ArticleTesla, Panasonic to Build Battery ‘Gigafactory’ in U.S.
Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors, Inc. have signed an agreement that lays out their cooperation on the construction of a large-scale battery manufacturing plant in the United States, known as the...
View ArticleGraphene Framework Boosts Energy Density of Supercapacitors
Scientists at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have used a holey graphene framework to significantly boost the energy density of...
View ArticleX-Rays Track Chemical Reactions in EV Battery Materials
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory are using a new method to track the electrochemical reactions in a common electric vehicle battery material under operating...
View ArticleGarnet Electrolyte Based Safe Wins NASA Funding
The University of Maryland Energy Research Center faculty, Eric Wachsman, Liangbing Hu, and Chunsheng Wang have been awarded funding from NASA for their Garnet Electrolyte Based Safe, lithium-sulfur...
View ArticleCarbon-Based Catalyst for Batteries, Fuel Cells Developed
Chemists at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, have developed a carbon-based catalyst for water electrolysis and hydrogen combustion. When energy is supplied, the so-called bi-functional catalysts...
View ArticleTechnique Produces Next-Gen Electrodes for Li-Ion Batteries
Scientists at the University of Tokyo have developed an approach with industrial potential to produce nano-sized composite silicon-based powders as negative electrodes for the next generation lithium...
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