Batteries & Other Energy Storage Devices

December 2022

Development of Next-Generation Solid Electrolyte Technology, 'Stable' Even When Exposed to the Atmosphere

DGIST (DAEGU GYEONGBUK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)

Professor Lee Jong-won’s team of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST (President: Kuk Yang), together with Professor Moon Jang-hyeok’s team from the Chung-Ang University, announced the development of solid electrolytes with enhanced atmospheric stability on Wednesday, December 7. Lithium ion batte

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12/29/2022

The sodium-sulphur battery has four times the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries.

Cheap Battery has Four Times the Capacity of Lithium-Ion

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

There has been a lot of research done on molten-salt batteries in recent times. The technology has a very high energy density and can often be cheaper to produce than other technologies. They are also less toxic than the Li-ion batteries that we often use now for energy storage. The low cost aspect

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12/27/2022

Schematic illustration of the LiCPON solid electrolyte and silicon-monoxide-carbon composite anode and consequent structure following battery cycling.

Novel Preparation of Next-Generation Anode Delivers Boost to Lithium-Ion Batteries

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY PRESS

The hunt for the next generation of materials for anodes in lithium-ion batteries has long suffered from a series of parasitic chemical reactions for many of the proposed replacements for the graphite that is conventionally used. A novel preparation technique for a silicon-monoxide-carbon composite material lo

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12/26/2022

PME researchers collected data on how different components of a thick lithium ion battery electrode evolve after successive cycles (one snapshot of the microscopy data shown on the left). Then, they used this data to create a computational model (right) illustrating the degradation....

Researchers Zoom in on Battery Wear and Tear

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

From the moment you first use it, a new lithium-ion battery is degrading. After a few hundred charge cycles, you’ll notice — your phone, laptop or electric car battery wears out more quickly. Eventually, it stops holding a charge at all. Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of

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12/26/2022

Shirley Meng, chief scientist at the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science

Designing Better Battery Electrolytes

DOE/ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY

Looking at the future of battery materials. Designing a battery is a three-part process. You need a positive electrode, you need a negative electrode, and — importantly — you need an electrolyte that works with both electrodes. An electrolyte is the battery component that transfers ions — charge-

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12/20/2022

Lithium-ion batteries in today's electric vehicles don’t deliver the necessary performance and durability at a reasonable price.

Long-Life Electrode Material for Solid-State Batteries

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Solid-state batteries (SSBs) look as if they will win the battle to become the technology that replaces the lithium-ion batteries we currently use, especially in applications such as electric vehicles. They have all the positive attributes of Li-ion batteries, but their solid electrolyte is safer and

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12/20/2022

ROHM's New MOSFETs Contribute to Higher Efficiency and Safer Operation with an Original Insulation Structure

ROHM Semiconductor announced they have developed a compact, high efficiency 20V N-channel MOSFET (RA1C030LD), optimized for switching in small, thin devices, including smartphones and wearables such as wireless earbuds and other hearable equipment. In recent years, the increasing sophistication and power

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12/20/2022

Dr. Francis Wang, CEO of NanoGraf

Building the U.S. Battery Supply Chain - The Midwest's First Advanced Silicon Anode Production Facility

NanoGraf, an advanced battery material company enabling longer-lasting, higher-energy, and higher-power lithium-ion batteries, announced plans to launch battery materials production in a new office and manufacturing facility in Chicago. The 17,000 square foot facility is located on the Near West Side adjacent to

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12/13/2022

StoreDot’s extreme fast charging (XFC) batteries for EVs have been successfully validated by an independent battery lab

EV Batteries Deliver 100 Miles Range in 5 Minutes Charging

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

A lot of the content in this column concerns batteries. The reason for that coverage is that more advanced batteries are essential to the progress of many technologies, especially those that will cut our dependence on carbon-based energy. Any entity that can make batteries charge faster, hold more ener

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12/13/2022

Founder and CEO of LeydenJar Christian Rood

LeydenJar Secures EU Backing in Financing of new Battery Factory

Dutch battery innovator LeydenJar has secured the funding to build its first factory to produce silicon anode foil. The company will invest €60 million in the construction of its first production facility, called “Plant One”, of which €30 million comes from a European Investment Bank loan facility. This fi

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12/09/2022

ROHM Delivers the Industry's Highest Rated Power Shunt Resistors in the 0508 Size

ROHM Semiconductor announced they have developed the LTR10L series of wide terminal shunt resistors, optimized for a variety of applications in the automotive, industrial, and consumer sectors. ROHM has also strengthened their considerable lineup with two updated general-purpose MCR series sh

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12/09/2022

Scheme of the Protective mechanisms of NTP-C

Toward Stable Aqueous Zn-ion Batteries

BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PRESS CO., LTD

“Aqueous ZIBs hold great potential as competitive candidates for next-generation energy storage devices,” said corresponding author Ying Bai, professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering in Beijing Institute of Technology. “Thanks to their high theoretical capacity, low cost, and high security.” Bai explained

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12/02/2022