lithium-ion rechargeable battery Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:37:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Rice University Creates Better Lithium Ion Batteries by Using Waste Silicon https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waste-silicon-lithium-ion-battery-20120911/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waste-silicon-lithium-ion-battery-20120911/#respond Tue, 11 Sep 2012 06:33:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=25967 Researchers at Rice University and the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, have developed a method to turn discarded silicon into flexible components for rechargeable batteries. One of silicon’s excellent qualities is that it absorbs ten times more lithium than the carbon currently used in lithium-ion [Li-ion] rechargeable batteries. The problem is that the silicon expands […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/waste-silicon-lithium-ion-battery-20120911/feed/ 0 25967 Hitachi Develops New Hi-Power Battery for PHEVs https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hitachi-lithium-ion-rechargeable-battery-phevs-20100114/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hitachi-lithium-ion-rechargeable-battery-phevs-20100114/#respond Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:06:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6236 Hitachi Vehicle Energy Ltd and Hitachi Ltd have developed a lithium-ion rechargeable battery that has a high output density and a high energy density for PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles).

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