Sentences with phrase «battery materials research»

Balbuena's research is supported by the Department of Energy as part the Battery Materials Research and Battery 500 Seedling programs, both of which are aimed at creating smaller, safer, lighter - weight and less expensive battery packs to make electric vehicles more affordable.

How it plans to achieve that is still up in the air, but the automaker is doubling down on the development of the batteries and it has the capacity to do so, thanks in large part to its new battery material research department that it created earlier this year.

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«Materials research could unlock potential of lithium - sulfur batteries.»

To find catalytic material suitable for both electrodes, the Stanford team borrowed a technique used in battery research called lithium - induced electrochemical tuning.

Now, Kui Yao and co-workers from the A * STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore have discovered a way to give lightweight polymer vibration harvesters a hundredfold boost in energy output — a finding that may help to eliminate manual battery recharging in microsensors and mobile devices.

Over the course of their several years of research, they discovered a material that may have the potential to double battery capacity: vanadate - borate glass.

Afyon currently works as a project leader in a research consortium led by Jennifer Rupp, professor of electrochemical materials, focused on developing an innovative solid - state battery.

Prof. Cho and his research team have developed a new type anode material that would be used in place of a conventional graphite anode, which they claim will lead to lighter and longer - lasting batteries for everything from personal devices to electric vehicles.

The material at the heart of the lithium ion batteries that power electric vehicles, laptop computers and smartphones has been shown to impair a key soil bacterium, according to new research published online in the journal Chemistry of Materials.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

The Materials Project has relatively few, starting with some 15,000 computed structures derived from Ceder's and Persson's research on lithium batteries.

«The implication of our research is that similar strategies can also be used to design cathode materials in Li - ion batteries.»

Manthiram is presenting some of his research on battery materials at the meeting that can resolve some of these problems.

Titled «Silicon Derived from Glass Bottles as Anode Materials for Lithium Ion Full Cell Batteries,» an article describing the research was published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.

This research is the latest in a series of projects led by Mihri and Cengiz Ozkan to create lithium - ion battery anodes from environmentally friendly materials.

Using the material research diffractometer STRESS - SPEC at FRM II, the researchers installed a battery, in both charging and discharging states, into the neutron beam.

Aluminum is currently used in not only research reactor components but also nuclear batteries and spacecraft, and it has been proposed as material for storage containers for nuclear waste.

«This is a groundbreaking advance in the 3 - D architecturing of materials at nano - to macroscales with applications in batteries, lightweight ultrastrong materials, catalytic converters, supercapacitors and biological scaffolds,» said Rahul Panat, associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, who led the materials at nano - to macroscales with applications in batteries, lightweight ultrastrong materials, catalytic converters, supercapacitors and biological scaffolds,» said Rahul Panat, associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, who led the materials, catalytic converters, supercapacitors and biological scaffolds,» said Rahul Panat, associate professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, who led the Materials Engineering, who led the research.

The reactor and its suite of instruments support basic research and analysis of a host of materials with applications that range from higher temperature superconductors and advanced batteries to pharmaceuticals and biofuels.

Sponsors: Chemical Imaging Initiative at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, conducted under the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program (structural and chemical imaging analysis); Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, DOE Office of Vehicle Technologies under the Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies program (materials synthesis and property measurement; DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (materials synthesis); and DOE's Freedom CAR and Vehicle Technologies Office (materials symaterials synthesis and property measurement; DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (materials synthesis); and DOE's Freedom CAR and Vehicle Technologies Office (materials syMaterials Sciences and Engineering Division (materials synthesis); and DOE's Freedom CAR and Vehicle Technologies Office (materials symaterials synthesis); and DOE's Freedom CAR and Vehicle Technologies Office (materials symaterials synthesis).

She has extensive research experience in the development and application of novel electron microscopy techniques for energy materials, such as lithium ion battery materials and fuel cell catalysts.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) is funding research into solid - state materials for improved batteries and fueResearch Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E) is funding research into solid - state materials for improved batteries and fueresearch into solid - state materials for improved batteries and fuel cells.

The research team, which consists of graduates and undergraduates in Vanderbilt's interdisciplinary materials science program and department of mechanical engineering, describe this achievement in a paper titled «From the Junkyard to the Power Grid: Ambient Processing of Scrap Metals into Nanostructured Electrodes for Ultrafast Rechargeable Batteries» published online this week in the journal ACS Energy Letters.

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The synthesis of the battery materials in Jin's lab was supported by National Science Foundation Division of Materials materials in Jin's lab was supported by National Science Foundation Division of Materials Materials Research.

«When our aim was to produce the materials used in batteries from household supplies in a manner so cheaply that large - scale manufacturing facilities don't make any sense, we had to approach this differently than we normally would in the research lab,» Pint said.

The aim of the current research project is to develop high energy density batteries using organic materials for a sustainable way of storing energy.

It is expected that the outcome of this project would support experimental research that has been developed for both the description and design of battery materials and catalytic systems.

, published on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/quando-recursos-minerais-se-esgotarao-648952.shtml >, based on information from the US Geological Survey, the US government agency responsible for geological research that crossed information on the annual consumption, mineral reserves available on the planet and its predictable extinction: 1) Platinum (use in surgical materials)-- Extinction by 2049; 2) Silver (use in the manufacture of mirrors and cutlery)-- Extinction in 2016; 3) Copper (use in wire and cable and air conditioning ducts)-- Extinction in 2027; 4) Antimony (use in remote controls and other materials to increase strength)-- Extinction 2020; 5) Lithium (use in cell phone batteries, laptops and video games)-- Extinction in 2053; 6) Phosphorus (use in agricultural fertilizers)-- Extinction in 2149; 7) Uranium (use for electric power generation)-- Extinction in 2026; 8) Indian (use in smartphones and tablets touch screen screens)-- Extinction in 2020; 9) Tantalum (use in cameras lenses)-- Extinction in 2027; 10) Nickel (use in metal alloy coating, electronics such as cell phones)-- Extinction in 2064; 11) Tin (use in coating metal alloys, such as those used in the soft drink cans)-- Extinction 2024; 12) Lead (use in car batteries and trucks and welds and bearings)-- Extinction in 2015; 13) Gold (use as jewelry and computer microchips)-- Extinction in 2043; 14) Zinc (use to cover alloys, preventing rust that destroy objects like coins)-- Extinction in 2041.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

Research and development was partially carried out by the «Basic Technology Development for Fiber Materials Having Advanced Functions / Development of Battery Components to Enhance Performance and Functionality» project, sponsored by the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI), as well as the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).

Whether popcorn, batteries, water or bronze — no material is too uninteresting for Vanessa Billy (* 1978, Geneva, lives in Zurich) not to use for research into sculpture and themes such as transformation and recycling.

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