Wax Helps Scientists Reach Theoretical Storage Limit for Lithium Manganese Phosphate Batteries
In the war for efficiency, not only energy harvesters (like solar cells, wind turbines and others) have to win, but they will also have to be accompanied by storage devices, coming from behind. Daiwon Choi, working at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has discovered how paraffin (wax) can improve the battery manufacturing technology by enhancing their electrodes.
Water-Based Lithium-Ion Batteries Performance Greatly Improved
A team at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, discovered how to improve the performance of water-based lithium-ion batteries by removing oxygen from the power cells. These batteries also have great potential for large-scale applications such as storing the energy from solar panels and wind turbines.
Energain: Specially Designed Plastic, Inserted Into Batteries, Improving Everything
DuPont, a science-based products and services company has created a new polymer-based separator for lithium-ion batteries that will improve their life and power and make them perfectly suited for electric and hybrid vehicles.
Lithium Manganese Phosphate Batteries Break Efficiency Records
Paraffin wax and oleic acid have been discovered to make up good materials for battery electrodes, which could have applicability in electric cars and power storage systems. A team of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers in Richland, WA, have discovered a technique that could turn materials otherwise unsuited for battery electrodes into ones that exceed even today's most advanced.
Archimede: World's First Concentrated Solar Power Plant That Uses Molten Salts as Energy Storage
First of all, Italy is one of the leading innovators in solar power. On July 15, their electricity company Enel has unveiled Archimede, their most innovative power plant using concentrated solar power (CSP) technology, where parabolic mirrors focus the Sun's light onto capturing surfaces which take the heat to the storage location. For the first time in the world, molten salts have been used as storage for the heat they captured from the Sun.
9 Electric Car Battery Factories Opened in Michigan: Experts Say Too Many
Michigan, once a prosperous area for the auto industry, saw a decline once the economy collapsed. Now, because of government incentives through grants under the Recovery Act, nine electric car battery factories have reborn there, creating new jobs and putting things on track again.
Planar Energy's New Printing Process to Improve Solid-State Batteries
Orlando-based startup Planar Energy, a spin-off from the National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL), found a new method that could improve the lifetime and stability of batteries used in electric vehicles. The company has created a new printing process of solid-state lithium-ion batteries. Unlike liquid lithium-ion batteries, this process can be used to print solid-state batteries that offer three times more storage.
Batteries That Recharge When Shaken Unveiled by Brother Industries
Brother Industries Ltd recently developed a small generator that allows you to recharge it simply by shaking it. According to the company, the "vibration-powered generating battery" can replace AA and AAA batteries for devices like remote control or flashlights, that have an energy consumption of about 100 mW.
WSU Researchers Creating New Compressed Material for Ultra-High Capacity Energy Storage
A new material able to store unprecedented amounts of energy and revolutionize batteries, the car industry and renewable energy sector has been discovered by Washington State University scientists by using pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth.
New Solid Organic Electric Battery Powered by Treated Potatoes
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have announced they developed a new solid organic electric battery that is powered by treated potatoes. This simple and sustainable device could solve the electricity needs in developing countries.
