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EnerG2’s Synthetic Carbon Anodes Could Increase Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity 30%

Benji Jerew — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:57:15 +0000

Makers of portable electronic devices might be interested in a new synthetic carbon anode that would effectively make a 30% thinner lithium-ion battery. With the growing popularity of portable electronic devices, lithium-ion battery technology is becoming more and more important. Battery capacity is becoming just as important as form factor. Marketing consistently hawks “X hours […]

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Silicon-Carbon Battery Anode Yielding High Efficiency and Capacity

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:16:48 +0000

Usually, Li-Ion batteries have carbon (graphite) electrodes, and the performance that we already know, which is not good enough for our cars at this moment. Georgia Institute of Technology researchers developed a new, high-performance anode based on a silicon-carbon nanocomposite material that could well improve the usability of Li-Ion batteries.

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AFC Developing Cheaper Fuel Cells Immune to CO2 Poisoning

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:31:06 +0000

UK-based company AFC Energy has developed an alkaline-based hydrogen fuel cell technology and tested it at a chlor-alkai plant in Germany, where they demonstrated it can generate electricity and feed it to the grid as efficiently as older, more expensive platinum-based fuel cells.

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