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The Lithium Ion Battery May Be Having a Revolution
California Lithium Battery (CLB), a finalist in Department of Energy’s 2012 Start Up America’s Next Top Energy Innovator challenge, has announced the record-setting performance of its new lithium ion...
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A Big Breakthrough in Thermal Energy Storage
Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a thermal energy storage system that uses parallel concrete plates. The new system is a structured thermocline system which can be...
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A Breakout Path to a Better Safer Lithium Ion Battery
Chemists from The City College of New York teamed with researchers from Rice University and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop a non-toxic and environmentally sustainable lithium-ion battery....
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Lithium Ion Batteries and Aviation Hit A Rough Spot
No Boeing 787 Dreamliners have crashed or burned to the ground, but lithium ion technology is back in the news with a vengeance. The lithium ion batteries that are used in the Boeing 787 are not good...
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Lithium Battery Material Redesign For a Big Improvement
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University scientists set a new world record for energy storage, using a clever “egg yolk-shell” design to store five times more energy in the sulfur...
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EEStor Lives!
Now two weeks out from a press release EEStor has met the goal of getting under the radar of the media. A quick look at Google News finds almost nothing. Still, the stockholders of Canada’s Zenn...
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On the Path to Stop Lithium Battery Fires
Its understood now that lithium deposits that form on electrode surfaces called dendrites build up until they cause an internal short circuit and can cause lithium-ion batteries to fail and some cases...
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Better Storage for Wind and Solar Power Found
Fraunhofer scientists have recently made an important breakthrough with their development of an improved Redox Flow Battery. Over the area of a half square meter, a bit over 4.5 square feet, the new...
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Graphene May Make the Super Battery a Reality
Rice University’s lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan has made hybrid ribbons of vanadium oxide (VO2) and graphene thousands of times thinner than a sheet of paper that built into half-cells...
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Ultracapacitors Get Really Disruptive Technology
Ionova Technologies, Inc. reports that its zinc-ion-based ZIP-Cap asymmetric ultracapacitor is expected to provide a huge improvement in ultracapacitor design. Tracking into the two notorious problems...
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How Long Will My Battery Last?
Mikael G. Cugnet, Ph.D. spoke on the question that worries millions of owners and potential owners of electric and hybrid vehicles (EVs) using lithium-ion batteries: How long before the battery pack...
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The Miracle Breakthrough Microbattery
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UI) have announced their new Microbatteries that out-power even the best supercapacitors and could drive new applications in radio...
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A Better Simpler Flow Battery For the Grid
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that might make solar and wind energy...
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Electric Drive For Formula Motorsports
Electric Drive For Formula Motorsports FIA, the governing body for much of the world’s motor sport, a federation of the world’s leading motoring organizations and organizer of the famed Formula 1 tour,...
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The Supercharging Battery Charger
Chalmers University of Technology researchers in Sweden have developed a unique integrated motor drive and battery charger for electric vehicles. Get ready – Compared to today’s electric vehicle...
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A New Idea Using the Deep Ocean Pressure to Store Energy
Norwegian research scientists are now working on the concept of storing electricity at the bottom of the sea. The energy will be stored with the help of high water pressure. It’s a new idea invented by...
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Higher Efficiency and Cost Reduction for Zinc Air Batteries
Stanford University scientists have developed an advanced zinc-air battery with higher catalytic activity and durability. The new battery design also avoids using the expensive platinum and iridium...
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The Grid Gets a Very Big Lithium Ion Battery
A very large new Lithium-ion battery was unveiled Saturday in Oregon to help make the Northwest’s and the nation’s electric system more efficient, officials said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. PGEs 5 MW...
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Astonishing New Solid Sulfur Lithium Battery
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional...
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Promising Silicon Alloy for Lithium-Ion Battery Electrodes
Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have synthesized a novel framework structure consisting of boron and silicon, which could serve as a Lithium-ion battery electrode material....
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