Posts Tagged battery

Yi Cui’s New Silicon Nanotube Batteries Can Get Recharged Up to 6,000 Times

Posted by Boniface Ndirangu in Energy Storage on May 16, 2012

Yi Cui, a Stanford scientist and founder of Amprius, is working on a high-tech lithium ion battery that could last for 6,000 charge and discharge cycles – all without degrading itself below 85 percent. This could bring an end to the headaches that many go through with aging laptop batteries or electric cars which just [...]

Thinergy’s New Batteries Redefine The Realm of Recharging

Posted by Izzy Maxino in Energy Storage on May 15, 2012

Today’s society is heading towards being a more mobile, technology-driven one. The market has been demanding smaller and thinner portable electronics, and manufacturers were able to produce thinner gadgets for its consumers. Now, with Infinite Power Solutions’ (IPS) breakthrough, manufacturers may be able to achieve the thinnest gadgets that we could ever possibly imagine. IPS of Littleton, Colorado [...]

New Grid-Ready Aqueous Lithium Ion Battery to Be Developed in German University

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on February 28, 2012

Although they’re being touted as the perfect energy storage medium for electric cars, lithium ion batteries, in the form they exist today, are not as good for grid energy storage applications. Dr. Fabio La Mantia from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum – Germany is going to develop an aqueous lithium ion battery adapted perfectly for the electrical grid. [...]

New Lithium Ion Battery Embedded in Cotton Fabric Could Save Lives

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on February 6, 2012

Flexible batteries could be the future devices that power our gadgets, emit distress signals in the case of an emergency or even resuscitate a dying patient. Woven into fabrics, they can reach extreme applications, but also have to withstand extreme conditions like washing and ironing. A team at the Polytechnic School of Montreal in Canada led [...]

Chinese Automaker BYD Unveils World's Largest Battery for Renewable Energy Storage

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on January 9, 2012

BYD is already being known as China’s main producer of electric cars. They also produce their own ferrous batteries for the cars, which they now use to store wind and solar power in what represents the world’s largest renewable energy storage based on batteries. Having the size of a football field, the huge battery bank [...]

World's Lightest Material is a Metal, Could Be Used for Making Better Batteries

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage, New Inventions on November 18, 2011

A newly invented material could revolutionize many industries at once. Discovered by a collaborating team from three U.S. universities, the metal is the lightest material ever discovered – so light it can actually sit on a dandelion. The new material’s density is 0.9 milligrams/cubic centimeter, and Styrofoam, one of the lightest so far, is 100 [...]

Newly Invented Energy-Storing Organic Membrane Better and Cheaper Than Batteries and Capacitors

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on October 27, 2011

An organic membrane may be the world’s next best battery and may revolutionize energy storage as we know it – it can bear far more energy than capacitors can, and can charge quicker than ever. Not to mention that it’s also dead-cheap. The energy-storing membrane has been invented by a team from the NUS Nanoscience [...]

German Researchers Dramatically Improve Electrolyte Filling Time in Batteries, Reduce Costs

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on October 17, 2011

A discovery made by researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) can eventually make lithium ion batteries cheaper by improving a key process that currently takes a lot of time to complete: filling the batteries with liquid electrolyte. The porous electrodes inside modern rechargeable batteries have to be properly filled with liquid electrolyte. Actually, [...]

MIT Researchers Increase Ultracapacitor Performance by 45 Percent

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage, Uncategorized on October 13, 2011

Yi Cui and Zhenan Bao from the University of Stanford have developed an electrode manufacturing technique that could improve the capacity of ultra-capacitors by 20 to 45 percent and make them compete with much more expensive batteries currently used in electric cars. The two researchers and the team they led used managanese oxide electrodes (MnO), [...]

Company Promises to Develop Battery-Replacing Ultracapacitors in Electric Vehicles

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on May 9, 2011

For years, people have been thinking to reduce or even eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles, and switch to battery-powered ones. The the battery-powered electric vehicles’ era hasn’t already begun well enough, and now some are even thinking to replace batteries with something else: ultracapacitors.

Illinois Researchers Create 3D Battery Electrode That Could Make EVs Charge In Minutes

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on March 21, 2011

The big problem with nowadays’ batteries is that they charge and discharge slowly. They can be made to charge and discharge faster at the price of their shortened lifetime, but that’s not a solution at all. Supercapacitors may offer fast charge/discharge rates, but their capacity is just not very high. A hybrid of these two would be perfect.

Newly-Invented Electrolyte Can Increase Battery Performance by 25 to 60 Percent

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on March 15, 2011

Batteries are going to get as wild as possible, with Wildcat Discovery Technologies’ new electrolyte material that is able to bear up to five volts, a first in the history of energy storage. This discovery is due to Wilcat’s combinational chemistry tools that can synthesize and test over 1,300 unique materials every week.

Coating Nanowires With Plexiglas Could Yield Better And Safer Batteries

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on December 13, 2010

A team of researchers from Rice University have taken lithium ion batteries to their next step of evolution. Their aim to develop three-dimensional batteries is now closer to reality by the implementation of a PMMA polymer (aka plexiglas) encasing the arrays of nickel-tin nanowires than make up the anode.

World's Smallest Single Nanowire Battery Filmed by Sandia Researcher, Reveals Previously Unknown Information

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on December 10, 2010

This image may not seem like much, but it’s actually the world’s smallest battery, consisting of a single tin oxide (SnO2) nanowire and that has been developed and visualized under a transmission electron microscope (TEM) by Sandia National Laboratories’ Jianyu Huang.

Toyota Unveils Solid State Battery That Can Withstand High Temperatures

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on November 24, 2010

Looking to gather momentum in the electric vehicle field, Toyota’s focus is also on batteries. The Japanese giant has recently unveiled a solid-state LiCoO2 (lithium cobalt oxide) battery that features higher energy density and bears temperatures of up to 100 degrees Celsius.

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