Sentences with phrase «while lithium»

While lithium - ion batteries are, on the whole, incredibly safe they do very very occasionally catch fire or explode.

«Hybrid Technologies is aiming for a 150 - to 180 - mile range per charge from the all - electric model, while the lithium - ion - meets - gas hybrid needs to hit 220 mpg — minimum.»

CFRP components also replace a number of parts of the aluminum spaceframe, while a lithium - ion battery takes on the role of the conventional starter battery, saving a further 17.6 pounds.

While lithium is toxic in high concentrations, there's a «sweet spot» where it's beneficial.

But while lithium works for some, one - third to one - half of patients do not benefit from existing treatments — none of which were created specifically for the disorder, which is characterised by extreme mood states.

While lithium carbonate has been very effective for the treatment of mania in bipolar disorder, and credited for reducing suicides in depressive phases of the disease, patients who take lithium carbonate are often noncompliant because of adverse effects, including hand tremor, diarrhea, vomiting, weight gain and decreased thyroid function.

«Psychiatry has long struggled with the fact that, while lithium is highly effective for treating bipolar disorder, the narrow therapeutic window and side effect profile often makes lithium both difficult and sometimes dangerous to work with clinically,» said Todd Gould, MD, of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland, an expert in the mechanisms of lithium and the neurobiology of bipolar disorder.

While lithium - ion batteries, widely used in mobile devices from cell phones to laptops, have one of the longest lifespans of commercial batteries today, they also have been behind a number of recent meltdowns and fires due to short - circuiting in mobile devices.

While lithium can be an effective mood stabilizer for people with bipolar disorder, it causes numerous unpleasant side effects for patients.

Lithium, among the top 10 most expensive minerals in the world can be used for the manufacture of batteries, heat - resistant glass, and ceramics while Lithium stearate is mixed with oils to make all - purpose and high - temperature lubricants.

I stayed at Choate Mental Health / Developmental Center for three weeks while my lithium levels were monitored and significantly increased to combat the cruel three - year golf drought I had been sentenced to.

While the lithium business is accretive to company financials (I couldn't find an instance where it wasn't), the small relative size of these numbers renders the lithium business as a «nice to have» or niche rather than real drivers of overall financial performance.

While lithium isn't particularly rare, it's still harder to come by than sodium, which can be extracted from seawater.

Not exact matches

While hybrid electric and full electric vehicles have become more common in recent years, the aviation industry has been slow to embrace e-planes, partially because of the weight and cost of lithium - ion battery packs.

Pilbara Minerals has announced the biggest capital raising by a Western Australian company for 2016, which it will use to fund development of its Pilgangoora lithium project, while also announcing it will put its new Tabba Tabba plant on ice.

Gold and lithium players were the biggest winners in the quarterly S&P / ASX indices rebalance, with Perth - based companies Galaxy Resources and Resolute Mining leading the shift, while contractors and tech firms lost ground.

While Wang has already developed self - healing versions of lithium - ion batteries, artificial muscles for use in the robotics industry, electronic skins and soon a touch panel, he notes that his polymer has limited mechanical properties, lacking the necessary strength and impact resistance required by most consumer devices.

Pilbara Minerals has shortlisted three engineering consortia for construction of the processing infrastructure at its Pilgangoora lithium development, while also appointing Engenium to assist in delivery of the project.

The lithium - ion battery - powered handheld hair dryer contains an infrared bulb to generate maximal heat from minimal energy — only one - third of the power that regular hair dryers consume — while minimizing hair damage.

While most of these companies are using lithium - ion batteries in their current models, Dyson said its car would use solid - state batteries that are smaller, more efficient, easier to charge and potentially easier to recycle.

While plenty of hurdles face new battery tech, the emergence of a viable and significantly better battery in the next five years could turn Tesla's $ 5 billion facility for mass producing lithium - ion batteries into a giga - albatross.

Meanwhile, Tesla began rebuilding Puerto Rico's power grid and built the world's largest lithium - ion battery, while Musk began digging with the Boring Company and sold out of custom - made hats and flamethrowers.

While talks are still in early stages, the Corfo executive believes that the American company's initiatives might end up starting a chain reaction that benefits not only the country's lithium industry.

While portable consumer goods alone continue to provide impressive growth in demand for lithium batteries, the start of mass production of hybrid, plug - in hybrid and electric vehicles presents the most significant upside potential for lithium demand.

But while initial investor focus has largely been on the resulting increase in demand for lithium, graphite — another key component of battery production — has flown...

Galaxy said prices for lithium carbonate in China declined by 10 per cent during the period, while prices for lithium hydroxide (which is increasingly preferred by battery manufacturers) declined by 3 per cent.

While much of the focus has quite rightly been on battery minerals, such as lithium, cobalt and graphite, the funds being raised are across the board with oil & gas, gold and iron representing three of the top four commodities by the amount raised,» Myers said.

The company now plans to sink up to five holes on the 2,760 - hectare Nevada property while continuing lithium extraction discussions with other companies that have requested samples.

It is possible for both to be true and while I think this is the case, anyone with a long - term bullish view of the lithium sector can view the recent carnage as a gift.

There's been some information available that Lithium while breastfeeding is not contraindicated, but it's still a good idea to find someone who can help.

Lithium - ion batteries are approaching fundamental electrochemical limits on the density of energy they can store, while their cost is nearing its floor, too — something particularly problematic for larger - scale applications.

It comes with a lithium ion battery (with a 10 - 12 minute play time) that is rechargeable for the vehicle while the transmitter takes AA batteries to stay charged.

«The prospect of using metal - organic frameworks for sustainable water filtration is incredibly exciting from a public - good perspective, while delivering a better way of extracting lithium ions to meet global demand could create new industries,» said Anita Hill, CSIRO's chief scientist.

While the car is braking, the system is in generator mode, allowing it to convert kinetic energy to electricity, which is stored in a bank of lithium - ion batteries.

While, in the case of gadolinium, effluent inputs account for 83 per cent of river fluxes, the proportion is just 24 per cent for zinc, 7 per cent for lithium and only 1 per cent for arsenic.

To ensure this, Wandt developed a rod - shaped cell while he was a doctoral candidate in the group of Prof. Hubert A. Gasteiger, Chair of Technical Electrochemistry at TUM, that allows the formation of metallic lithium to be detected directly and with quantitative precision.

«The nanotube approach represents an exciting opportunity — improving the performance of rechargeable lithium - ion batteries while make them last longer,» Pesaran said.

The new study sought to better understand why, despite seemingly equivalent hyperactivity, some bipolar patients» neurons respond to lithium while others» do not.

In the proof - of - concept version the team built, only one of the two sides of the battery is composed of flowing liquid, while the other side — a sheet of lithium — is in solid form.

Among the study's key findings was that mice given lithium chloride after alcohol consumption and mice that never consumed alcohol had the same duration of undisrupted sleep of about 10 hours per day, while untreated mice given alcohol woke up as many as 50 times per hour.

As the battery is discharged, lithium ions (shown in purple) jump across the coating and insert themselves into the crystal structure, while electrons (shown as circles with minus signs) in the carbon - coating tunnel into the material and attach to iron ions (shown in red).

While the study focused on lithium - ion batteries, the scientists say the observed phenomenon may also occur in other high - performance battery chemistries.

«Lithium chloride is known to block many pathways that lead to brain cell death, while promoting others that lead to survival, like brain - derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF,» says Saito, a research assistant professor at NYU Langone.

Unlike cathodes where the microstructures in both the c - plane and c - axis are randomly oriented, the specialized grains allow easy access for lithium ions while relaxing the stress associated with intercalation.

Also well - established is that the SEI prevents detrimental reactions from occurring at the interface, while at the same time allowing the important lithium ions free rein to move between the electrolyte and electrode.

The newly developed modification was to put two extremely thin (1 - 3 nm) layers of the lithium - containing molecule Liq on each side of the hole blocking layer, which brings electrons to the TADF material, the green emitter 4CzIPN in this case, while preventing holes from exiting the device before contributing to emission.

But while carbon - sulfur microstructures could confound efforts to identify ancient life, they may provide a roadmap to an entirely different innovation: Next - generation lithium - sulfur (Li - S) batteries.

Tour said that while thin - film lithium ion batteries are able to store more energy, LIG supercapacitors of the same size offer three times the performance in power (the speed at which energy flows).

The cathode in lithium - ion batteries comprises a lithium metal oxide while the standard material for battery anodes is graphite (carbon) with a layered structure.

Moreover, it reveals why some patients respond to treatment with lithium while others don't.