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Scientists Use Old Car Tires To Boost Li-Ion Batteries’ Performance

Mila Luleva — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:22:31 +0000

You have got to love all those great inventions and technologies that tackle more than one pressing problem at the time, especially when they address pollution and energy storage. The latest technology that does exactly this comes from ORNL, where scientists made batteries out of old and unusable car tires. The horrific image of an […]

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“Flash Thermography Measurement” Technique Sees Battery Electrode Defects Before Assembly

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 11 May 2013 07:17:39 +0000

A team at Purdue University have discovered a method of detecting defects in lithium ion battery anodes as they are manufactured, before installing them in actual batteries. Their discovery relies on thermal imaging and could increase the reliability of lithium ion cells used in electric cars. Anodes and cathodes are the two electrodes of a […]

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SiC [Silicon-Graphene] Anodes Could make Electric Vehicles Viable

Benji Jerew — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:36:36 +0000

Electric vehicles [EV] suffer a major problem with public perception, specifically their battery packs. EV battery packs are prohibitively expensive when it comes to increasing range. Affordable EVs are limited in range, which keeps many customers from considering them. The battery packs constitute such a big proportion that high-range EVs cost up to $100,000, but […]

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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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Lithium Sulfur Experimental Batteries Provide 4 Times Capacity of Li-Ion

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:33:44 +0000

Based on recent discoveries by University of Waterloo University scientists from Ontario, a team of Stanford researchers developed an electrode that can provide more energy density in lithium-sulfur batteries. Their experiments promise an improvement of 4 times the capacity of a standard lithium-ion battery, if current issues are overcame.

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