News Articles with Category: Batteries
October 13, 2014 – via Nanyang Technology University (NTU)
The next generation lithium-ion batteries can charge up to 70 per cent in two minutes, and have a lifespan of more than 20 years. The researchers hope to see the batteries hit the market within the next two years.
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September 26, 2014 – via US Department of Transportation
If a company’s employee is traveling with a UAV and spare lithium ion batteries, the U.S. and international hazardous materials regulations strictly prohibit spare lithium ion batteries from being placed in checked baggage. In addition, lithium ion batteries carried on the aircraft by passengers generally may not exceed 100 Watt-hours. However, slightly larger lithium ion batteries exceeding 100 Wh, but not exceeding 160 Wh, may be carried onboard the aircraft with the approval of the airline. No more than two of these slightly larger lithium ion batteries may be carried on the aircraft.
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September 26, 2014 – via Siemens
To accomplish this, the company uses novel lithium titanate anodes and lithium iron phosphate cathodes together in combination with new battery chemistry, the composition of which remains undisclosed.
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August 20, 2014 – via Power Japan Plus
Further characteristics that make it particularly suitable for electric cars are a long lifetime of 3,000 charge/discharge cycles (Li-ion’s life is closer to 1,000 cycles) and the ability to discharge fully without the risk of short-circuiting and damaging the battery. Moreover, the battery doesn’t heat up, so it wouldn’t require the extensive cooling systems that appear in current electric cars. Thermal stability also makes the battery much safer, because it eliminates the risk of thermal runaway, which can cause explosions. And it would be more powerful than other batteries, operating at over four volts.
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August 20, 2014 – via Scientific American
The Michigan start-up Sakti3 says its solid-state cells more than double the energy density of today’s best Li-Ion batteries
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August 5, 2014 – via US Department of Transportation
The Department of Transportation announces new standards in the transportation of lithium cells and batteries.
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August 1, 2014 – via Wall Street Journal
Mirror International Standards; Falls Short of What Pilots Group Wanted
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July 29, 2014 – via Stanford University
The challenge of making a lithium anode is largely due to the reactivity of the pure metal and how such an anode would expand and contract on charging and discharging – cracking, degrading and forming dendrites. These factors would cause such batteries to be impractical, unstable, not long lasting. The Stanford scientists have overcome the above problems using a carbon nanosphere wall to coat the lithium anode. This 20nm thick “flexible, uniform and non-reactive film… protects the unstable lithium from the drawbacks that have made it such a challenge,
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July 25, 2014 – via The Smithsonian
U.S. Department of Energy researchers pinpoint the reasons why rechargeable batteries lose their ability to hold a charge over time
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July 20, 2014 – via AllCells
AllCells Technology Chairman and CEO Said al-Hallaj talks about his company’s efforts to prevent lithium-ion battery thermal runaway through the use of a phase-change material that limits the damage to other cells in the pack.
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June 26, 2014 – via US Deparment of Energy
Six new applied battery research projects with objective to develop lithium-ion cells, which exceed energy density of 200 Wh/kg, were recently launched with support of $17.4 million from the US Department of Energy (DOE). Timeframe for the projects end in 2015.
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June 25, 2014 – via Reportlinker
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
Next-Generation Advanced Batteries
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May 30, 2014 – via IATA
The LBSG brings together all of the relevant content of the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations and UN Manual of Tests and Criteria, as well as detailed examples on packing, marking, labelling and documentation.
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May 29, 2014 – via Brookhaven National Laboratory
Contrary to large-scale observation, the lithium-ion reactions actually erode the materials non-uniformly, seizing upon intrinsic vulnerabilities in atomic structure in the same way that rust creeps unevenly across steel
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May 23, 2014 – via NEI Corporation
Aqueous-based lithium-ion batteries also have the potential to significantly reduce cost, measured in terms of $/kWh.
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May 23, 2014 – via Panasonic
Tesla is planning to build a factory in the United States producing lithium-ion batteries from 2017 that it estimates will cost $4 billion to $5 billion
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May 22, 2014 – via University of Arizona
Rehauling the battery’s design allowed more efficient battery cycling, bypassing that problem that plagued previous Li–S batteries. In the paper, the authors say their work shows “improved Li−S battery lifetimes out to 500 charge−discharge cycles with excellent retention of charge capacity,” a significant boost over the battery’s predecessors.
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May 17, 2014 – via Power Japan Plus
Rather than a conventional lithium-ion cell with a carbon anode and a lithium metal oxide cathode that varies by chemistry, a dual-carbon cell has a carbon cathode as well as anode.
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April 18, 2014 – via Aquion
Batteries are famously toxic, but Aquion Energy seeking to change that. It’s using more sustainable materials to put lightning in a bottle – and could help boost other cleantech
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April 15, 2014 – via Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
A new, PNNL-developed nanomaterial called a metal organic framework could extend the lifespan of lithium-sulfur batteries, which could be used to increase the driving range of electric vehicles.
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March 31, 2014 – via University of Southern California
The USC Viterbi team developed a cost-effective (and therefore commercially viable) silicon anode with a stable capacity above 1100 mAh/g for extended 600 cycles, making their anode nearly three times more powerful and longer lasting than a typical commercial anode.
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March 5, 2014 – via Research and Markets
The report takes a detailed look at advanced automotive battery technologies, including the state of currently competing architectures such as lead acid batteries, nickel metal hydride (NiMH), lithium batteries, anode and cathode materials, super-capacitors and ultra-capacitors.
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February 10, 2014 – via University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The work paves the way for developing a new generation lithium-ion battery that doesn’t spontaneously combust at high temperatures.
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January 31, 2014 – via OpenWater Power
The company is working on two different kinds of battery designs: an aluminum-seawater version that needs seawater to operate and must be vented; and an aluminum-permanganate version that is completely sealed.
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January 28, 2014 – via RenewEconomy
The concept integrates a metal hydride storage electrode into a reversible proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell. During charging, protons produced from splitting water are directly combined with electrons and metal particles in one electrode of a fuel cell, forming a solid-state metal hydride as the energy storage. To resupply electricity, this process is reversed.
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January 8, 2014 – via Amprius
Amprius says its third generation silicon nanowire technology has the potential to increase the battery energy density of lithium-ion cells from its industry best-figure of 450 watt-hours per litre to more than 800 watt-hours per litre.
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December 31, 2013 – via Engineering.com
In showing that dendrites are not simple protrusions emanating from the lithium electrode surface and that subsurface non-conductive contaminants might be the source of dendritic structures
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December 9, 2013 – via Sekisui Chemical
New organic polymer electrolyte materials such as gel-type electrolytes provide approximately 10 times the ion conductivity while taking up less space and weight.
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December 3, 2013 – via Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lithium–sulfur batteries might soon be able to take an electric car more than 300 miles on a single charge
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November 21, 2013 – via SolidEnergy
SolidEnergy says its new battery materials store more energy and won’t catch fire.
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November 20, 2013 – via XG Energy
These new anode materials have demonstrated energy storage capacity of up to four times that of conventional anodes
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November 18, 2013 – via SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford researchers invent a self-healing polymer that can be applied to silicon electrodes to keep them from cracking and falling apart during battery operation.
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October 24, 2013 – via Cornell University
Breakthroughs in the durability and performance of lithium-sulfur battery cathodes, one by using a component of corn starch, and the other, by modeling a nanocomposite material after the yolk-shell structure of eggs.
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October 17, 2013 – via Solid Power
The battery uses a ceramic electrolyte and an all-solid-state composite cathode based on a low-cost iron-sulfur chemistry
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September 19, 2013 – via University of Colorado
Instead of using a solid mass of material, Lee and Stoldt created a “composite cathode,” essentially small particles of cathode material held together with solid electrolyte and infused with an additive that increases its electrical conductivity.
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September 3, 2013 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
Officials of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Ind., have awarded a $12.5 million contract to General Atomics for lithium ion batteries to be used on the Dry Combat Submersible program of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)
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September 2, 2013 – via NSWC Crane
The Battery Innovation Center’s diverse capabilities in energy storage system prototyping, testing and evaluation, and microgrid implementation are exactly what are needed to accelerate the development of this technology
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August 14, 2013 – via Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Liang’s team then combined the new sulfur-rich cathode and a lithium anode with a solid electrolyte material, also developed at ORNL, to create an energy-dense, all-solid battery.
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August 6, 2013 – via North Carolina State University
When the silicon-coated carbon nanotubes were aligned in one direction like a layer of drinking straws laid end to end, the structure allowed for controlled expansion so that the silicon is less prone to pulverization
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July 26, 2013 – via Michigan State University
Sakamoto and colleagues are trying to determine if a solid material might be better. The class of material is referred to as superionic conductors which works as fast as a liquid, but has other advantages. “The goal is to move away from liquid cells and toward solid state batteries that are safer, cheaper to manufacture, less sensitive to degradation at higher temperatures and more durable”
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June 24, 2013 – via Bosch
The three companies intend to set up a joint venture for joint research and development, and to support their mother companies in sales and marketing activities. Operations are planned to start in the beginning of 2014. The headquarters will be Stuttgart/Germany.
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June 6, 2013 – via Oak Ridge National Laboratory
They’ve created an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery that is cheaper, less flammable, and has four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion batteries.
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June 4, 2013 – via TG Daily
Stanford University scientists have dramatically improved the performance of lithium-ion batteries by creating novel electrodes made of silicon and conducting polymer hydrogel, a spongy material similar to that used in contact lenses and other household products.
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April 24, 2013 – via Motor Trend
A nano-technological cure under development proposed smearing a thin coating of nanospheres on either the anode or the separator layer to serve as a sub-microscopic fire brigade.
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April 17, 2013 – via Extreme Tech
The University of Illinois will first have to prove that their technology scales to larger battery sizes, and that the production process isn’t prohibitively expensive for commercial production.
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April 17, 2013 – via Electrovaya
It represents the integration of our automotive and grid knowledge, our customers’ feedback, recent safety enhancements in the aerospace sector and our overall vision of the future design of advanced batteries.
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April 12, 2013 – via Design News
Lithium-ion batteries for electric cars may last far longer than we’ve been led to believe, a battery expert told the American Chemical Society in a speech this week.
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April 10, 2013 – via Reuters
Many experts now believe it will take at least another decade for lithium-ion technology to be ready for widespread adoption in transportation. Others, including Toyota Motor Corp, believe the solution lies beyond lithium-ion.
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April 10, 2013 – via American Chemical Society
“The battery pack could be used during a quite reasonable period of time ranging from 5 to 20 years depending on many factors,”
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April 8, 2013 – via Daily Echo
The cause was thought to be an electrical fault with the batteries.
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April 2, 2013 – via Bluefin Robotics
The US Navy has granted a safety approval for its standard 1.5 kWh Subsea Battery for use with the HAUV system including transport aboard Naval aircraft.
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April 2, 2013 – via Nature Materials
But don’t get too excited—it only works at high temperatures.
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March 7, 2013 – via Purdue University
Researchers have created an analytical theory that shows how to design experiments to study ways of controlling dendrite growth, and results of the theory allow researchers to predict early stages of dendrite formation.
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March 4, 2013 – via Aved Electronics
“Shipping Lithium Batteries – What You Need to Know.”
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February 23, 2013 – via UCLA
Graphene, a simply carbon polymer that, unlike batteries that have toxic metals in them, is environmentally benign and is not only biodegradable but compostable.
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February 13, 2013 – via University of Southern California
Zhou’s team took commercially available nano-particles-tiny silicon spheres-and etched them with the same pores as the nano-wires. The particles function similarly and can be made in any quantity desired.
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January 25, 2013 – via Translogic
Using cobalt oxide (CoO2) as a cathode material has begun to fall out of favor, as lithium iron phosphate, nickel, manganese and other metals have been found to be safer, although cannot offer the same capacity.
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January 25, 2013 – via Subsea World News
SWE SeaSafe™ products will power the entire range of modern subsea vehicles from MUVs (manned underwater vehicles) to ROVs (Remote Operated Vehicles) to AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) and offshore Oil and Gas infrastructure electronics and actuators.
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January 23, 2013 – via Daily Science
The ORNL team developed its solid electrolyte by manipulating a material called lithium thiophosphate so that it could conduct ions 1,000 times faster than its natural bulk form.
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January 22, 2013 – via Wall Street Journal
Jet’s Power Units Store a Lot of Energy in Small Package; Risks of Fire During Recharging.
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January 18, 2013 – via Lux Research
“There are known LCO safety concerns, most notably that the material does not resist overheating well,”
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January 18, 2013 – via National Public Radio
Their future in airplanes, however, likely hangs on what engineers learn from the two incidents on the Dreamliner.
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January 18, 2013 – via Los Angeles Times
The cause of the fires in the two Dreamliners has still not been determined and neither Boeing nor the Japanese company that made the batteries, GS Yuasa, have publicly commented on likely factors. Boeing subjected the batteries on the plane to thousands of hours of testing and installed numerous safety systems specific to the batteries.
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January 17, 2013 – via International Business Times
New Subsea Ready Battery Solutions Safely Power Underwater Vehicles and Offshore Oil and Gas Infrastructure with 4X More Energy
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January 11, 2013 – via Bluefin Robotics
The company offers a commercial-off-the-shelf 1.5 kWh pack and custom power solutions for a variety of underwater applications including profilers, subsea equipment, ROVs, and other submersible platforms.
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December 13, 2012 – via IATA
Effective 01 January 2013, several changes will come into play for lithium ion and lithium metal battery shipments.
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December 10, 2012 – via Greentech Media
A polymer version of the potent but historically troubled lithium-sulfur chemistry
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December 9, 2012 – via Washington Post
A123 Systems announced Sunday that Wanxiang would pay $256.6 million for all of A123’s technology, its manufacturing facilities in the United States and China, and its contracts with utilities seeking grid storage and automakers seeking batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles.
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November 30, 2012 – via New York Times
The battery hub is intended to produce revolutionary advances in batteries for electric cars, and for use on the grid, where they would help in integrating intermittent renewable energy sources like sun and wind. “It’s a new operating model for doing R.&D.;, where you bring the discoverers, scientists like myself, and designers, who know how to think about putting those discoveries into prototypes, and finally manufacturers, people who build things, under one roof,”
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November 30, 2012 – via Argonne National Laboratory
By creating a nanoscale electrode material that can actually order itself into a more efficient and powerful electrochemical structure as it is subjected to repeated discharging and charging, the research team forged a new pathway for the design and development of higher capacity, higher power, safer batteries.
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November 29, 2012 – via MIT Technology Review
The largest grant winner in energy storage, PolyPlus Battery, hopes to make a rechargeable lithium sulfur battery.
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November 16, 2012 – via Paultan.org
The automaker has created a prototype battery utilising the new material, The Nikkei reports. Shaped the size of a coin, the battery functions at room temperature, and is able to generate an electric voltage value – which is used to calculate the maximum mileage of electric vehicles – that’s 30% higher than that of lithium-ion batteries.
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November 15, 2012 – via Digital trends
Toyota is working on a new battery for electric cars which could not only extend their range to as much as 600 miles but would also be cheaper.
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November 9, 2012 – via MIT Technology Review
It will likely take a decade, but improvements to lithium-ion batteries could lead to much cheaper EVs.
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November 2, 2012 – via Rice University
Rice University researchers are testing anodes made of treated porous silicon that can be spread on a current collector and holds up to 10 times the amount of lithium than graphite anodes in current lithium-ion batteries. The robust anodes have achieved more than 600 charge-discharge cycles.
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November 1, 2012 – via Science 2.0
Porous silicon powder mixed with pyrolyzed polyacrylonitrile is the basis for a robust anode for lithium-ion batteries. Anodes developed with the powder at Rice University have achieved more than 600 charge-discharge cycles in the lab
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November 1, 2012 – via Cornell University
By developing a method for additive-free electrodes that maintain high conductivity, the researchers have opened new possibilities for reducing the weight and volume of batteries, while also creating a template system for studying the physics of nanoparticle electrodes.
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November 1, 2012 – via University of California at San Diego
One team is developing sophisticated algorithms to improve the way electric vehicle batteries run. Another is working to create new, more efficient and less costly materials for the devices.
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October 26, 2012 – via California Lithium Battery
Independent full cell tests reveal unrivaled performance characteristics, with an energy density of 525WH/Kg and specific anode capacity 1,250mAh/g.
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October 18, 2012 – via MIT Technology Review
The lithium-ion battery maker, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, was betting on technology that wasn’t advanced enough to help it overcome the inherent advantages of established manufacturers and compete with them.
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October 16, 2012 – via Mass High Tech
Included in the Johnson Controls purchase are A123 facilities in Livonia and Romulus, Mich., and China, its interest in Shanghai Advanced Transaction Battery Systems Co., and all of the company’s auto technology, products and contracts. As part of the proposed deal, Johnson Controls has committed $72.5 million in debt financing to continue A123’s operations during the pending sale.
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October 12, 2012 – via Design News
After a decade of intense focus on lithium-ion, material scientists are beginning to look to new battery chemistries for future electric cars.
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October 9, 2012 – via MIT
Exactly what goes inside advanced lithium-air batteries as they charge and discharge has always been impossible to observe directly. Now, a new technique developed by MIT researchers promises to change that, allowing study of this electrochemical activity as it happens.
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October 8, 2012 – via IT News
This new cathode and electrolyte solution improve battery energy density by approximately 30%, increase battery capacity and decrease battery weight, all while maintaining a high level of safety
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October 5, 2012 – via Fox News
“The key is to demonstrate how the materials can be extracted in a responsible way,” he says. “The challenge is to see how the post-processing facilities can be competitive with current lithium production methods.”
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October 5, 2012 – via UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new algorithms that improve the efficiency of existing lithium-ion batteries and could allow them to be charged twice as fast than is currently possible.
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October 4, 2012 – via Aviation International News
What is abundantly clear from the research conducted for this article is that all types of battery have risks and can cause problems.
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October 2, 2012 – via MIT Technology Review
The $2.4 billion program designed to jump-start the battery industry has met with horrible market conditions.
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October 1, 2012 – via Kansas State University
n the new research, Klankowski has been “developing and testing a high-performance nanostructure of silicon coated onto carbon nanofibers for the use as an electrode in lithium-ion batteries.” The electrodes resemble a dense brush.
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September 29, 2012 – via Perfect lithium
The chemical synthetic process of preparing lithium ion materials adopted by Perfect Lithium cuts down manufacture time to just one day as opposed to four or five days needed for the conventional solid state synthesis process.
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September 18, 2012 – via John Wiley and Sons
The book is written in a straightforward fashion suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scientists, and engineers starting out in the field.
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August 20, 2012 – via Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Engineering Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Use Intentionally Blemished Graphene Paper To Create Easy-To-Make, Quick-Charging Lithium-ion Battery With High Power Density
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August 15, 2012 – via The register
The discovery changes the way materials used in regular batteries are treated
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August 14, 2012 – via ZDNet
Scientists in South Korea say new development cuts down recharging time to between 1/30 and 1/120 of existing lithium-ion batteries and could boost uptake of electric vehicles when developed.
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August 3, 2012 – via Washington University
A team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis will receive $2 million to design a battery management system for lithium-ion batteries that will guarantee their longevity, safety and performance.
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July 17, 2012 – via Science Blog
Because silicon expands as it absorbs lithium ions, the sponge-like configuration gives it room to grow internally without degrading the battery’s performance
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June 12, 2012 – via Journal Sentinal
“This project will develop a protected lithium electrode, a solid electrolyte and a scaled up manufacturing process for high energy density lithium-air, lithium-water and lithium-sulfur batteries,”
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June 12, 2012 – via Scientific American
A new battery from A123 Systems offers greater flexibility, more power and, potentially, lower overall costs
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June 8, 2012 – via wheels.ca
The goal is a five-minute charge for any car’s battery pack; a rate that would match the time it takes to refill the tank on a gas-powered car.
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June 5, 2012 – via Phys.org
Called Iolyte, the new material is flame retardant, doesn’t evaporate and is able to hold more charge than current electrolytes.
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May 25, 2012 – via TriplePundit
The researchers developed an anode made of tin rather than the more commonly used carbon.
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May 25, 2012 – via http://www.ebnonline.com/author.asp?section_id=1061&doc;_id=244675&itc;=ebnonline_gnews
The US Postal Service recently banned shipments of electronic products containing lithium batteries, citing risk of fire.
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May 23, 2012 – via Forbes
The trick is to replace graphite with tin for the anode, which is one of the two main components in a battery cell. Using tin can increase the energy storage capacity of a battery cell by nearly three times
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May 17, 2012 – via Scientific American
Researchers are still struggling to improve these ubiquitous batteries in a bid to make electric vehicles more viable
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May 10, 2012 – via Fast Company
The United States Postal Service has banned all international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries effective May 16.
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May 4, 2012 – via ARS Technica
A new electrode material could help make lightweight, powerful rechargeable sodium batteries to replace lithium-ion batteries used in electronics and some electric vehicles. The material contains widely available iron, instead of the nickel and cobalt commonly used in these electrodes, and enables a similar energy density to electrodes in lithium batteries.
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May 4, 2012 – via IDTechEX
This article shares some of the research carried out for the new IDTechEx report, Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors 2013-2023.
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April 5, 2012 – via Business Week
PolyPlus’s innovation is a ceramic seal that lets the battery pull oxygen from the water to create a controlled chemical reaction.
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March 15, 2012 – via Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
With an electrical capacity five times higher than conventional lithium battery electrodes, silicon-carbon nanocomposite electrodes could lead to longer-lasting, cheaper rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles.
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March 15, 2012 – via CalBattery
A new, transformational battery that will offer the highest energy density and longest life cycle ( 70% cost reduction) of any lithium battery made today is being released by California Lithium Battery, Inc.
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March 15, 2012 – via LION Blog
Large Shipments of Small Lithium Batteries Now Partially Regulated
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March 10, 2012 – via CNET
At the Arpa-E summit in Washington DC, companies presented a variety of energy research projects, from lithium water batteries to flying wings and solar concentrators
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March 1, 2012 – via MIT Technology Review
If Envia can overcome some key problems, its technology could cut the cost of electric-car batteries in half.
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February 27, 2012 – via Renew Grid
Tests at various cycling rates at NSWC confirmed that Envia’s automotive battery cell demonstrated an energy density between 378 Wh/kg and 418 Wh/kg for rates between C/3 to C/10 for a 45 ampere/hour (C/3) cell.
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February 26, 2012 – via New York Times
Envia’s announcement said that its packs would deliver cell energy of 400 watt-hours per kilogram at a cost of $150 per kilowatt-hour.
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February 23, 2012 – via Flight
The International Civil Aviation Organisation is to consider new safety standards for air transport of lithium batteries in the wake of increased concern over the potential for in-flight fires.
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February 19, 2012 – via The Energy Collective
Last Monday, Energy Conversion Devices Inc. sold its subsidiary, Ovonic Battery Company, to BASF for $58 million. Ovonic is a global leader in nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery technology, holding 97 U.S. and international patents and patent applications in that field. All major producers of NiMH batteries in the world today work under license from Ovonic.
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February 16, 2012 – via Bloomberg
A United Nations panel is calling for tougher inspections and detailed labeling of air shipments of lithium batteries following two incidents in which aircraft were destroyed when freight shipments burst into flames.
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February 9, 2012 – via MIT
A study by Martin Z. Bazant from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has discovered the reasons behind the unusual charging and discharging behavior of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) nanoparticles, paving the way to develop high-efficient battery materials.
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January 12, 2012 – via Futurity.org
The sensor is based, its inventors at Johns Hopkins University say, on the discovery that an easily measured electrical parameter reveals the internal temperature of a lithium-ion cell.
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December 12, 2011 – via Magnesium Investing News
Pellion Technologies [5], that is in the midst of developing magnesium-ion batteries which some researchers say could potentially replace lithium [6]-ion batteries. Not only is magnesium cheaper than lithium, it also has the potential to have twice the energy density of the lithium-ion batteries
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December 9, 2011 – via Business Week
GM and other companies are engineering future models with lithium phosphate technology partly because the batteries can be safer and they last longe
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December 2, 2011 – via Washington Post
Lawmakers, responding to pleas from industry and foreign governments, have tentatively agreed to block the Obama administration from requiring that air shipments of lithium batteries be treated as hazardous cargo because of the danger of fires during flight.
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November 29, 2011 – via Drexel University
In a piece published in the November 18 edition of Science, Gogotsi, who is the head of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, calls for a new, standardized gauge of performance measurement for energy storage devices that are as small as those used in cell phones to as large as those used in the national energy grid.
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November 28, 2011 – via Ilika
The key to successful solid state battery development is to find a stable electrolyte with high enough conductivity and in the presentation Ilika demonstrated how their high throughput methods have produced very high quality electrolytes with substantially higher conductivity than had previously been observed.
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November 25, 2011 – via IEEE Spectrum
In his most recent research he has abandoned the use of lithium ions and replaced them with either sodium or potassium ions for his new battery technology. The result is a battery that Cui and his colleagues claim is able to retain 83% of its charge after 40,000 cycles, which compares more than favorably to Li-ion batteries of 1,000 cycles.
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November 22, 2011 – via New Electronics
For hybrid (HEV) and full electric vehicles (EVs), Li-Ion batteries offer the best trade off of power, energy density, efficiency and environmental impact. But Li-Ion batteries can be delicate and dangerous, while automobiles can be cruel and unforgiving. The challenge is to bridge the gap between the two environments.
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November 22, 2011 – via Maritime Executive
Even if cells are used with higher voltages, like 3.4 Volts for Lithium-Ion and 3.7 Volts for Lithium-Polymer cells, it is still necessary to connect 28 up to 250 cells to reach the requested system voltages. A large team of single players like this needs a coach with a complete overview. This requires an advanced balancing system.
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November 21, 2011 – via PolyPlus
he PolyPlus lithium battery uses ordinary seawater or air interacting with lithium to deliver unprecedented energy density levels in a non-toxic, environmentally friendly and inherently safe product.
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October 21, 2011 – via Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
Based on a fluoride shuttle — the transfer of fluoride anions between the electrodes — it promises to enhance the storage capacity reached by lithium-ion batteries by several factors. Operational safety is also increased, as it can be done without lithium.
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October 17, 2011 – via IDG News Service
The Tokyo-based electronics company said it has developed a new lithium battery that can hold a 70% charge after 13 years.
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October 13, 2011 – via Earth techling
Now, two teams of scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) report that they are making significant progress on the next generation of battery technology, focused on a key battery component, the anode, where electricity comes out.
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September 30, 2011 – via MIT Technology Review
A stretchy binder material that’s compatible with existing factories could help electric cars and portable electronics go 30 percent longer.
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September 29, 2011 – via Chemical and Engineering News
Cathode Materials: Encasing sulfur in nanofibers could help high-energy batteries survive repeated recharging
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September 28, 2011 – via EnerSys
A new company has been formed, EAS Germany GmbH, which will further the development and production of lithium-ion based solutions for space, naval, marine, renewable energy and specialty high power applications for EnerSys.
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September 10, 2011 – via BBC
The new lithium jelly battery is tougher than the rest
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September 8, 2011 – via Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A team led by Hansan Liu, Gilbert Brown and Parans Paranthaman of the Department of Energy lab’s Chemical Sciences Division found that titanium dioxide creates a highly desirable material that increases surface area and features a fast charge-discharge capability for lithium ion batteries. Compared to conventional technologies, the differences in charge time and capacity are striking.
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September 8, 2011 – via Royal Society of Chemistry
An extract from brown algae could give rechargeable lithium-ion batteries a boost by allowing silicon nanopowder to be used as a high-capacity alternative to graphite electrodes.
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September 8, 2011 – via Clemson University
Known as alginate, the material is extracted from common, fast-growing brown algae. In tests so far, it has helped boost energy storage and output for both graphite-based electrodes used in existing batteries and silicon-based electrodes being developed for future generations of batteries.
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September 5, 2011 – via AV Web
The FAA says the MIT staff who packed the box weren’t properly trained (!) to handle hazardous material and the FedEx airbill they filled out had the box checked to indicate there were no dangerous goods inside.
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August 19, 2011 – via Physorg.com
Researchers at Nanotek Instruments, Inc., and its subsidiary Angstron Materials, Inc., in Dayton, Ohio, have developed a new paradigm for designing energy storage devices that is based on rapidly shuttling large numbers of lithium ions between electrodes with massive graphene surfaces. The energy storage device could prove extremely useful for electric vehicles, where it could reduce the recharge time from hours to less than a minute.
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August 16, 2011 – via MIT
New understanding of high-performing cathode compound could facilitate rapid evaluation of improved alternatives
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August 15, 2011 – via Softpedia.com
A group of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) managed to understand why a material widely used for creating lithium-ion batteries actually works. Up until now, lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) has been heavily used to produce the positive electrode (cathode) of Li-Ion batteries, but experts had no idea why it worked the way it did.
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August 15, 2011 – via IEEE Spectrum
Silicon with pores, spikes, and other nanostructures could be making gadgets run longer as soon as 2012
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August 2, 2011 – via ARS Technica
A Japanese group that includes some researchers at Toyota has now found a solid electrolyte that’s also a superionic conductor, and show that it may have what it takes to function in batteries.
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August 2, 2011 – via MIT Technology Review
A new fabrication technique lets batteries use tin electrodes, and store more energy.
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July 29, 2011 – via Design News
Not every battery application offers easy access to recharging. In those situations, engineers are increasingly reaching for a chemistry known as lithium-thionyl chloride.
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July 28, 2011 – via Ecoseed
Researchers at the United States Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created a graphene and tin nanoscale composite material for rechargable lithium-ion batteries that allows quick and repeated charging without degradation
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July 27, 2011 – via Nanowerk News
Fuel cells and lithium-ion traction batteries will increasingly be seen working together in driving land, sea and air vehicles.
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July 12, 2011 – via MIT Technology Review
Chinese startup develops new, low-cost ways to improve the properties of lithium-iron phosphate, a leading electrode material.
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July 12, 2011 – via Clean Tech
Put simply, ultracapacitors are some of the best devices around for delivering a quick surge of power. Because an ultracapacitor stores energy in an electric field, rather than in a chemical reaction, it can survive hundreds of thousands more charge and discharge cycles than a battery can.
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July 5, 2011 – via MIT Technology Review
The problem lies with the cathodes in these batteries. The specific capacities of the anode materials in lithium batteries are 370 mAh/g for graphite and 4200 mAh/g for silicon.
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July 5, 2011 – via Smart Grid News
The firm uses concentrated nanoparticle suspensions of common lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery cathode materials such as lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) and lithium iron phosphate (LFP) in an electrolyte to create an energy-dense liquid that can slowly flow over a membrane like the separators used in conventional Li-ion batteries; a similar suspension of an anode material like graphite or lithium titanate (LTO) flows over the membrane on the other side.
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June 29, 2011 – via Clean Tech
Damage from extended exposure to high temperatures and a lot of charging and discharging cycles eventually starts to break down the process of the lithium ions traveling back and forth between electrodes.
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June 27, 2011 – via Naval Research Laboratory
The Zero Power Ballast Control (ZPBC) is a technology that relies on microbial energy harvesting developments to enable unsupervised underwater sensing with subsequent surfacing and reporting capabilities.
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June 24, 2011 – via SAE
This year’s Summit will again bring together the world’s most highly regarded engineers, scientists and corporate representatives to update the industry on the latest progress and plans for lithium based battery technologies and research as well as their implications for worldwide markets.
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June 22, 2011 – via UNMANNED AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (UUV, AUV) NEWS
Office of Naval Research just did a patent on making energy with a combination of seawater and organic material at the bottom of the ocean.
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June 22, 2011 – via University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota engineering researchers have recently discovered a new alloy material that converts heat directly into electricity.
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June 16, 2011 – via Engadget
We’re told recharging will be done in 15 minutes for 80 percent, 10 minutes for 50 percent, and a mere 300 seconds for 25 percent.
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June 15, 2011 – via Nanowerk News
“This research involves the development of a new class of fast rechargeable batteries based on a zinc-plastic system incorporating a novel, inexpensive, environmentally sustainable solvent,”
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June 15, 2011 – via Car and Driver
State of Charge: We examine the battery technology that makes hybrids and EVs go.
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June 14, 2011 – via Plastemart
Researchers from Imperial College London and their European partners, including Volvo Car Corporation, are developing a prototype multifunctional structural composite material composed of carbon fibers and a polymer resin which can store and discharge electrical energy and which is also strong and lightweight enough to be used for car parts.
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June 11, 2011 – via The Energy Collective
Over the past several years advanced electrochemical energy storage has captured the imagination, not just of the public, but of much of the scientific community as well. The problems in advanced battery science are real and in some respects daunting. But the best minds we have are now on the problem.
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June 10, 2011 – via The Hill
the United States has dawdled for more than two years to bring our regulations up to the more stringent international standards.
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June 10, 2011 – via Auto week
Charles Gassenheimer, CEO of Ener1, which makes lithium-ion batteries for Volvo and Norwegian EV maker Think, says the biggest fire risk comes when a consumer overcharges an EV battery.
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June 8, 2011 – via Aviation Week
The reasons: all the electrical installation and switching gear would need to be changed together with the prime mover motor because of the lithium-ion batteries’ higher voltage and redundant safety electronics would need to be introduced for the lithium which is not a very stable material.
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June 6, 2011 – via MIT
Significant advance in battery architecture could be breakthrough for electric vehicles and grid storage.
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April 28, 2011 – via IBTimes
PolyPlus is developing what are known as lithium-oxygen batteries that reportedly offer up to ten times the energy density of current battery technologies, meaning down the road electric cars might be able to go farther longer on one charge.
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April 27, 2011 – via Corvus Energy
Advances in cell technology usher in higher lithium-ion battery capacity
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March 21, 2011 – via University of Illinois
Braun’s group developed a three-dimensional nanostructure for battery cathodes that allows for dramatically faster charging and discharging without sacrificing energy storage capacity.
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March 8, 2011 – via Korea IT Times
Third generation traction batteries such as lithium sulphur are being successfully used today but it is in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs long before they will be considered for cars.
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March 2, 2011 – via Scientific American
ARPA-e funds potential breakthrough work to make energy-dense batteries that enable long distance travel
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February 23, 2011 – via EVWorld
Dr. Peter Harrop reviews status of lithium polymer batteries for electric vehicles.
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January 4, 2011 – via Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
New Nanoengineered Batteries Developed at Rensselaer Exhibit Remarkable Power Density, Charging More Than 40 Times Faster Than Today’s Lithium-ion Batteries
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December 21, 2010 – via NSWC Crane
IDENTITY POTENTIAL CANDIDATE BATTERY MODULES TO FILL A POSSIBLE NEED FOR A STANDARD BATTERY IN MANNED AND UNMANNED MARITIME VEHICLES
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December 14, 2010 – via SCPS
Société de Conseil et de Prospective Scientifique (SCPS), located in Rosny-sous-Bois, France, developed a technology that allows the nickel-zinc battery system to work as close as possible to its theoretical performance, with a long cycle life.
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October 8, 2010 – via Air Transport Intelligence news
The US FAA has issued a safety alert recommending that airlines adopt new procedures to reduce the risk of onboard fire posed by lithium batteries.
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August 12, 2010 – via Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Paraffin and surfactant oleic acid improve synthesis of lithium manganese phosphate electrodes.
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July 31, 2010 – via Washington Post
The lithium-ion battery quietly fuels modern life. It powers our iPhones, iPads, BlackBerrys and laptops. It’s in the next round of electric cars coming to market this year. It also has a controversial safety record peppered with fires and recalls. Now the Department of Transportation wants to toughen rules for how the batteries — and devices containing them — are shipped on cargo planes. If finalized, the proposed changes would require shippers to treat iPhones as hazardous materials, on par with flammable paint or dry ice with the full weight of regulation and added costs that come with that classification.
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July 2, 2010 – via Washington State University
Using super-high pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet, Washington State University researchers have created a compact, never-before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy.
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June 18, 2010 – via MIT
Batteries might gain a boost in power capacity as a result of a new finding from researchers at MIT. They found that using carbon nanotubes for one of the battery’s electrodes produced a significant increase — up to tenfold — in the amount of power it could deliver from a given weight of material, compared to a conventional lithium-ion battery. Such electrodes might find applications in small portable devices, and with further research might also lead to improved batteries for larger, more power-hungry applications.
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May 28, 2010 – via courtney.house.gov
Alternative Power System Testing for Innovative Sensor Delivery and Deployment Concepts, Promare, Chester; $5 million. The bill authorizes $5 million to adapt an existing hybrid lithium-ion battery/fuel cell power system from the NASA space shuttle orbiter program for unmanned underwater vehicle use aboard the Experimental Research Transformational Submersible, S201.
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November 2, 2009 – via Saft
Super-Phosphate™ technology takes lithium iron phosphate technology to new levels.
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June 30, 2009 – via Saft
Saft Li-ion battery technology provides significant improvements in speed and autonomy for SDV compared with previous battery system
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June 9, 2008 – via Saft
Saft Li-ion field- proven technology, will power the new “Guerre des Mines” demonstrator AUV during mine countermeasure missions
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September 10, 2007 – via SAFT
Saft are to supply lithium-ion batteries to BAE Systems for use in its Talisman ‘M’ autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).
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April 25, 2007 – via Saft
Saft Li-ion battery system will provide five hours of autonomous operation for the Redermor-3 UUV (Unmanned Underwater Vehicle)
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