Sentences with phrase «ion battery materials»

Manthiram has recently published advances for two other types of lithium - ion battery materials and is working with ActaCell, a startup based in Austin, TX, to commercialize the technology developed in his lab.

A new way to make advanced lithium - ion battery materials addresses one of their chief remaining problems: cost.

«If we can maximize the cycling performance and efficiency of these low - cost and abundant iron fluoride lithium ion battery materials, we could advance large - scale renewable energy storage technologies for electric cars and microgrids,» he says.

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.

** POSCO, South Korea's top steelmaker, said it will set up two joint ventures to produce lithium - ion battery materials with China's Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, one of China's top cobalt producers.

Not exact matches

A desire to secure supply of raw battery materials, such as lithium, will encourage electric vehicle and lithium - ion battery manufacturers to directly invest in mines, Pilbara Minerals managing director Ken Brinsden says.

The new lithium - silicon batteries, nearing production - ready status thanks to startups including Sila Technologies and Angstron Materials, will leapfrog marginal improvements in existing lithium - ion batteries.

«I do think it could be used in lithium - ion batteries and for a mechanical strengthening material, or for composite polymers and stuff like that, especially if it can be made cheaply,» she says.

Chilean development agency Corfo executive vice-president Eduardo Bitran noted that the deal between Tesla and SQM would likely result in a new facility that would aid the Elon Musk - led electric car maker and energy firm in securing the supply of raw material used in lithium - ion batteries.

Nano One Materials Corp. (TSXV: N NO) has captured the imagination of investors with a disruptive technology that can short - cut the traditional way of making cathode material used in lithium - ion batteries and ultimately improve their performance.

Today's infographic comes to us from Nano One, a Canadian tech company that specializes in battery materials, and it provides interesting context on lithium - ion battery advancements over the last couple of decades.

It's also something we are covering in our five - part battery series, in which we are looking at lithium - ion battery demand, as well as the materials that will need to be sourced as electric cars go mainstream.

Flow batteries also charge quickly and last for thousands of cycles, but needed materials such as energy - dense electrolytes and ion exchange membranes remain expensive.

A new technique developed by researchers at Technische Universität München, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and RWTH Aachen University, published in Elsevier's Materials Today, provides a unique insight into how the charging rate of lithium ion batteries can be a factor limiting their lifetime and safety.

Researchers used a combined atomic / molecular layer deposition (ALD / MLD) technique, to prepare lithium terephthalate, a recently found anode material for a lithium - ion battery.

«New insight into battery charging supports development of improved electric vehicles: First technique capable of determining lithium metal plating during lithium ion battery charging reported in Materials Today.»

Shirley Meng, a professor at UC San Diego's Department of NanoEngineering, added, «This beautiful study combines several complementary tools that probe both the bulk and surface of the NMC layered oxide — one of the most promising cathode materials for high - voltage operation that enables higher energy density in lithium - ion batteries.

In fact, there have been many efforts to improve lithium - ion battery or supercapacitor performance using alternative electrode materials such as carbon nanotubes and other manganese oxides.

Phase evolution for conversion reaction electrodes in lithium - ion batteries Surface reconstruction and chemical evolution of stoichiometric layered cathode materials for lithium - ion batteries

They will next integrate the silicon anode with the sulfur cathode, as well as with other traditional cathode materials, in order to maximize lithium - ion battery capacity and overall performance.

«New cathode materials is the hottest direction in Li - ion batteries,» Ceder said.

«Our method of producing nanoporous silicon anodes is low - cost and scalable for mass production in industrial manufacturing, which makes silicon a promising anode material for the next generation of lithium - ion batteries,» said Zhou.

Another major advance in lithium - ion batteries is reported in the Nature Communications paper, «Mitigating oxygen loss to improve the cycling performance of high capacity cation - disordered cathode materials,» which shows that disordered materials can be fluorinated, unlike other battery materials.

He estimates the price of the electrode materials at about one third of the price of electrodes in a lithium - ion battery.

The hope is to create a more porous material with a higher surface area that could hold on to more lithium ions and thus make longer - lived batteries.

In this regard, researchers are diligently looking for new materials that exhibit a greater energy density and charging capacity, but which are no heavier or larger than those used in today's lithium - ion batteries.

These alternative electrodes could be capable of storing nearly three times as much energy as graphite, the material of choice in current lithium - ion batteries.

Using abundant inexpensive material means less need for such expensive metals as cobalt, currently used in lithium ion batteries» cathodes, lowering overall cost.»

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.

Typical lithium - ion batteries use separate materials for conducting electrons and binding active materials, but NREL's approach uses carbon nanotubes for both functions.

An international team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used advanced techniques in electron microscopy to show how the ratio of materials that make up a lithium - ion battery electrode affects its structure at the atomic level, and how the surface is very different from the rest of the material.

«We probably know about 1 % of the properties of existing materials,» he says, pointing to the example of lithium iron phosphate: a compound that was first synthesized in the 1930s, but was not recognized as a promising replacement material for current - generation lithium - ion batteries until 1996.

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

A unique combination of materials developed at Rice University, including a clay - based electrolyte, may solve a problem for rechargeable lithium - ion batteries destined for harsh environments.

Manthiram said he is also investigating other battery chemistries, like lithium - sulfur and sodium - ion, which use different materials and offer their own advantages.

Solid batteries have been around for more than 200 years, but advances in the materials and chemistry of lithium ion and other batteries have made them much more efficient and effective.

«We now have a good understanding of the material properties required in large - scale use of silicon in Li - ion batteries.

A multi-institution team of scientists led by Texas A&M University chemist Sarbajit Banerjee has discovered an exceptional metal - oxide magnesium battery cathode material, moving researchers one step closer to delivering batteries that promise higher density of energy storage on top of transformative advances in safety, cost and performance in comparison to their ubiquitous lithium - ion (Li - ion) counterparts.

Researchers have created a high performance anode material for lithium - ion batteries (LIBs) using waste silicon (Si) sawdust.

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.

«We've essentially reconfigured the atoms to provide a different pathway for magnesium ions to travel along, thereby obtaining a viable cathode material in which they can readily be inserted and extracted during discharging and charging of the battery,» Banerjee says.

«Most negative electrodes for sodium - ion batteries use materials that undergo an «alloying» reaction with sodium,» Singh said.

A new twist on the familiar lithium ion battery has yielded a type of power - storing material that charges and discharges at lightning speed.

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).

Collectively, the team applied decades of combined experience in materials science to explain the fundamental reasons why this new type of vanadium pentoxide is superior to the old version as well as to Li - ion batteries.

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.

«In a lithium - ion battery, lithium ions move from the anode to the cathode during discharge and back when charging,» said Tohru Suzuki, a co-author on the APL Materials paper.

Primary, or non-rechargeable, batteries and secondary batteries both produce current through an electrochemical reaction involving a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte (an ion - conducting material).

It is also an attractive anode material for lithium - ion batteries because it has a large theoretical charge - discharge capacity compared to graphite and high lithium ion diffusivity at room temperature compared to silicon.

«This work provides a fundamental understanding of an exciting class of materials with numerous potential applications in technologies such as ion batteries, catalysis, and superconductors,» lead author Hidetaka Kasai says.