Scale drives cost reduction for storage We are already witnessing the impact of manufacturing scale on cost for lithium-ion batteries being bid into the electricity market.
Energy storage and fuel cells The two outliers in this category are Boston-Power and Bloom energy. Boston-Power has raised up to $450 million for its lithium-ion battery technology over the past five years.
But the company has combined investment and grants in official press releases, so that total is a ceiling rather than an exact figure.
Aquion and Ambri have landed both large deals in the process of commercializing novel battery technologies, though Aquion two-year age advantage makes a direct funding comparison with Ambri difficult.
And to crown it all the U k. currently has the biggest battery in Europe. So is storage really taking off?
(or soon will be provided by batteries and 5 megawatts by mainly uninterruptible power supply flywheel systems. There are also experimental compressed air,
cryogenic thermal and flow battery projects ongoing. That 3, 300-megawatt total compares quite favorably with 7, 600 megawatts in Germany and 6, 560 megawatts in California,
The most prominent of these is the Smarter Network Storage project, better known as the biggest battery in Europe.
the battery is designed to explore alternative revenue streams for storage, while deferring traditional network reinforcement. Numerous early-stage projects have emerged.
REDT is developing a vanadium redox flow battery for storing wind and wave power in Scotland. And Isentropic is building a demonstration project for its cryogenic energy storage technology.
SMA launched its Sunny Boy Smart energy PV inverter and battery system. Sharp followed suit at the end of last year by offering a solar-and-storage device that uses Samsung batteries.
Bosch is hoping for certification of a solar-storage inverter next month and various other solar players, such as Renesola of China, seem to be clamoring to enter the U k. market.
One solution for boosting domestic supply of residential storage systems is to leverage vehicle battery manufacturers,
"The U k. is home to one of the only electric vehicle battery plants in the world, the Nissan plant in Tyneside.
#Harvard Organic Flow battery Under Development in Europe Last year, the Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences demonstrated a flow battery concept in the laboratory that used organic quinone molecules as the basis for its electrolyte.
he jumped on a plane from Rome to Boston for a meeting with Dr. Aziz, the battery project's director,
Aliquò lists the many advantages of the flow battery technology, particularly the projected cost savings. And unless the Green energy Storage team substantially modifies Harvard's technology,
the battery will also use other inexpensive elements, such as carbon electrodes. He also cites the fact that quinones are natural
and are less likely than other electrolyte options to cross the battery membrane, thanks to the organic molecules'size and charge.
Another advantage claimed for organic flow batteries is the high solubility of quinones in aqueous solutions, allowing for energy densities that are orders of magnitude higher than lead-acid, lithium-ion,
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#Can $4b in Clean energy Investment Come Fast enough? The White house announced more than $4 billion in commitments at a Clean energy Investment Summit on Tuesday to scale up clean energy companies and address climate change. here not a single reason...
#24m Unveils the Reinvented Lithium-Ion Battery Five years ago, M24 Technologies spun out from parent company A123 with plans to turn a mysterious,
semisolid electrode material into a revolution in how lithium-ion batteries are designed and built. Back then, cofounder and Massachusetts institute of technology professor Yet-Ming Chiang described a lean sheet of paperapproach, combining concepts from flow batteries and fuel cells,
and stripping the modern lithium-ion battery architecture of all its inactive materials and complex manufacturing steps.
On Monday, the Cambridge, Mass. -based startup unveiled the results--a lithium-ion battery that it says can be built at $100 per kilowatt-hour at scale,
or half the cost of today competition. And by using a fluid-like set of electrodes that can be formed into a working cell in one step,
24m says its manufacturing facilities could be one-tenth the cost of today battery plants,
modular packages. obody ever made a battery this way, Chiang said in a phone interview last week. 24m has made about 10,000 test cells so far,
Compared to the multi-stage process used in today lithium-ion batteries, it implified, streamlined, with a lot of metrology,
By early 2017, the startup intends to start producing utility-scale grid storage batteries, using lithium iron phosphate as the cathode and graphite as the anode,
as well as established battery giants like Samsung, Panasonic and LG Chem. Breakthroughs being promised by startups with new nano-structured materials and designs, such as Amprius, Nanosys,
could enable even greater performance and cost improvements for traditional battery designs. And outside lithium-ion batteries, a host of new chemistries from startups such as Aquion, Eos Energy storage and a long list of flow battery contenders are promising low-cost
multi-hour energy storage solutions at utility scale. Given the novelty of what 24m is promising, it likely to be met with a skeptical eye by the industry until it starts delivering a testable product at scale.
So how does 24m approach make for an entirely new way of designing and building lithium-ion batteries?
During 24m early days, Chiang and startup cofounder and fellow MIT professor W. Craig Carter saw its semisolid electrode material--dubbed ambridge crudefor its MIT roots--as a material to be used in flow batteries,
The startup received early funding from the Department of energy ARPA-E program to explore the potential uses for this material. e originally conceived of using this type of electrode in a flow battery,
he said. ut what we realized upon forming the company was that this semisolid electrode capability had a much better home--reinventing how lithium-ion batteries are made.
Chiang identified two main problems in today lithium-ion battery design. ne is that the current lithium-ion battery itself contains a great deal of material that doesn store any energy
He referring to the inactive material that layered between the super-thin electrodes that allow today lithium-ion batteries to charge
and to create a battery that has much thicker electrodes, and thus much less inactive materials. p until now, it has not been possible to create electrodes that are this thick
That necessary for the lithium ions to get out of the back of the battery, he said.
is a battery cell that combines high energy capacity and high current density in the same set of materials,
as compared to typical lithium-ion batteries for power tools, tablets and electric vehicles. At the same time, e believe these to be the safest lithium-ion batteries ever created,
he said, largely due to the lack of brittle, breakable separator materials within the battery cells.
To prove that, 24m shared a series of photographs of a test pouch cell being folded up like an accordion
we left the battery on the shelf for a month and it still worked, he said.
That not just a safety bonus--it also shows that you can shape the battery,
Chiang said. hy does a conventional lithium-ion battery plant have to be so expensive and so large?
First of all, a conventional lithium-ion battery plant starts with metal foil, and then layers liquid nk or painton it to form its electrodes,
All of these steps you would normally use to make a battery electrode that would take a full day,
Others have tried to adapt similar manufacturing processes to the battery business before, he noted. or example,
people have tried to make extruded batteries, he said, but hey had to have so much plastic to make that process possible,
and a really poorly performing battery. That in contrast to 24m process, in which hat goes into the electrodes is just
cathode and electrolyte to form this perfect blend of battery performance characteristics that Chiang didn reveal in this interview.
much simpler than the processes used to make lithium-ion batteries today. he formulation process for making these electrodes is spent exacting,
using commercial off-the-shelf gear in common use in today battery manufacturing plants, as well as from industries with less of a reputation for cutting edge technology,
many gigawatt-hours of batteries produced every year. We believe the most cost-efficient way to get there is to create manufacturing modules that you can just replicate
The startup plans to build its utility-scale batteries in partnership with its strategic investors rather than licensing the technology itself,
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#3d, high-capacity soft batteries created using trees Even as technology advances at a mind-boggling rate,
batteries always seem to lag behind. It often hinders the development of novel devices and gadgets simply due to their bulky size or limited storage capacity.
they have been limited by the manufacturing processes used to create the complex architecture. here are limits to how thin a battery can be,
but in less space than conventional batteries would allow, Hamedi explains. To create their innovative wood-based aerogel material,
a hybrid battery and a supercapacitor, which is a rapidly charging and discharging device capable of storing huge amounts of electrical charge.
The electric-car maker is building its giant battery igafactoryoutside of Reno. So the state fortunes will be tied to the success of electric cars.
despite only being powered by batteries. And now the company has added self-driving capabilities that use a range of sensors to drive safely and more efficiently.
It does so using a special T-shaped battery and a light frame that is built to absorb collisions.
That helps the car use the battery even more efficiently than it already does. The company says that it can build the car o meet special customer requests
The BMW i8 electric sports car has a carbon fibre passenger compartment to make up for the weight of its heavy battery Professor Richard Catlow of the University of London,
*The BMW i8 electric sports car has a carbon fibre passenger compartment to make up for the weight of its heavy battery.
#Toyota Nissan Honda to jointly support hydrogen station infrastructure development Toyota motor Corp Nissan motor co and Honda motor Co have agreed to work together to help accelerate the development of hydrogen station infrastructure for fuel cell vehicles (FCVS.
and Fuel cells in June 2014 the Japanese government has highlighted the importance of developing hydrogen station infrastructure as quickly as possible
#Technology Fuel cells provide electricity for homes Kyoto-based Steven Rogers is the business development executive for Ceres Power, a British venture company that specialises in solid oxide fuel cells.
will manufacture their fuel cells under licence. Ceres Power brainchild is a remarkably compact fuel cell, the prototypes
of which are made in a state-of-the-art plant in Horsham, southern England. Rogers grasps one of the cells, which,
fuel cell is like a battery, in a sense; but if you have a continuous supply of fuel and air,
it doesn run out in the same way that a battery does. he cell is made up of three layers cathode, electrolyte and anode
thus the cell effectively works as a battery. But, unlike a traditional battery, Ceres fuel cells last years. e are targeting 10 years,
he states. A decade equates to about 90 000 hours of use. A typical home needs 120 separate Ceres cells,
the fuel cell process produces heat, which will be enough to supply a home with all of its hot water needs.
Gas is essential to the Ceres fuel cell process. The stacks will be powered by piped gas in the same way that homes are supplied with gas from the mains in the street.
the energy-making process will be activated immediately in the fuel cell stack. The green credentials in this process are connected,
He expects the Ceres Power fuel cell technology to reach the market in two and half years. f there was one in every home in Japan, for example,
The company will also be releasing new printing materials in order to try its hand at printing resistors, sensors and, for future models of its printer, even lithium-ion batteries.
#Following Tesla's Lead Toyota Makes Fuel cell Patents Free Toyota is making thousands of its hydrogen fuel cell patents available royalty-free,
600 fuel cell patentsavailable through 2020 to carmakers who produce and sell fuel cell vehicles, and to parts suppliers and companies interested in building and operating fueling stations,
said Bob Carter, Toyota's senior vice president of automotive operations. The carmaker hopes the move will spur worldwide development and innovation in fuel cell technologies.
It comes on the heels of a similar decision by billionaire entrepreneur Elon musk to make the patents of his electric car company
Companies that make fuel cell busses and industrial equipment can also receive the patents, and requests from nontransportation companies will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis,
Fuel cell vehicle-related patents will be available royalty-free until the end of 2020, while hydrogen-production and supply patents will remain free indefinitely.
Toyota also encouraged other companies to share their fuel cell patents. Carter said his company provided substantial funding for the development of hydrogen fueling infrastructure in California and the northeastern United states. In May 2014
500 watts of power and a giant backpack full of motors and batteries to operate. But the company also developed much smaller devices, called passive walkers,
which is why it needs a traditional battery. Solpro Of course, the Misfit Shine isn't the only product at this year's CES that gets its power from the sun. Solar tech company Solpro unveiled its new solar-powered phone-charging device, the Helios Smart
because its engines are powered battery. NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
#Novel Use of WI-FI Signals to Power Remote Devices, named Powi-Fi The scientists from the University of Washington have devised a method to utilize Wi-fi signals to power a battery-free camera,
Talla informed,"The battery-free camera can operate up to about five meters from the router,
"Talla further said that by adding a rechargeable battery, the operating distance of the camera was increased to seven meters.
#Novel Approach for Lithium-ion Batteries Researchers from MIT and Cambridge, Mass. -based Battery Company 24m have come up with an advanced manufacturing technology for lithium-ion batteries.
Researchers have claimed of reinvented the process for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries. Not much change has been noticed in the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries in the two decades.
Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT, was of the view that the existing technology is not perfect
and there is a need to made advancements. Five years back, Chiang and colleagues developed the new process.
and pumped through different compartments of the battery. Scientists said that the new battery design is a hybrid between flow batteries and conventional ones.
The research published in the Journal of Power Sources unveiled that the new approach has simplified manufacturing.
Also, the batteries become flexible and resistant to damage. Research paper'senior author Chiang said that after presenting the earlier research on the flow battery,
"We realized that a better way to make use of this flowable electrode technology was to reinvent the lithium ion manufacturing process".
The new system leads to the production of battery that is more flexible and resilient. Around 10,000 batteries have been made by the company on its prototype assembly lines.
They will undergo testing by three industrial partners s
#Polymide aerogel combines toughness with light weight Claimed to be the first commercially available polyimide aerogel,
Mercedes-benz and Hyundai. Think of a fuel-cell car as an exhaust-free electric car with a little chemical factory producing the electrons in place of a battery.
The other advantage over battery cars is that refueling is just like getting gas, and takes only about five minutes.
The concept has been around for centuries (the fuel cell was invented by a British barrister in the 19th century),
previously mostly quiet on fuel cells though it showed an early interest in hydrogen with 7-Series cars that burned the stuff.
BMW showed a 5-Series ran Turismowith a fuel cell (and a range of 310 miles) at a race track in France
The government has subsidized already home and office fuel cells. Honda will be a big player in fuel cells,
and showed off the FCV Concept car at the Detroit Auto Show back in January. It plans to have the production version of that car on American roads next year.
The lamp works by making use of"the science behind the Galvanic cell, the basis for battery-making, changing the electrolytes to a nontoxic,
saline solution--making the entire process safe and harmless,"according to SALT Corp.,at their website. Even better
It even comes equipped with a USB port for charging smartphone batteries. In the event that you don't carry a bag of salt with you,
have longer battery life and generate less heat than existing mobile devices. The first supercomputers using silicon photonics already under development at companies such as Intel
Nanofibers-polymer filaments only a couple of hundred nanometers in diameter have a huge range of potential applications, from solar cells to water filtration to fuel cells.
or fuel cell electrodes, which catalyze reactions at their surfaces. Nanofibers can also yield materials that are permeable only at very small scales, like water filters,
Nanofibers-polymer filaments only a couple of hundred nanometers in diameter have a huge range of potential applications, from solar cells to water filtration to fuel cells.
or fuel cell electrodes, which catalyze reactions at their surfaces. Nanofibers can also yield materials that are permeable only at very small scales, like water filters,
batteries, fuel cells, and other major energy technologies.""We tracked the dynamic transformations of a working catalyst,
including batteries and fuel cells.""We are seeing the emergence of a very powerful and versatile technique that leverages both NSLS-II
and is powered battery so it doesn't need an outlet. Beyond thermotherapy the applications are endless.
At its most basic level, your smart phone's battery is powering billions of transistors using electrons to flip on and off billions of times per second.
At its most basic level, your smart phone's battery is powering billions of transistors using electrons to flip on and off billions of times per second.
One of crucial next steps is to achieve the similar white lasers under the drive of a battery.
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2015imperfect graphene opens door to better fuel cells: Membrane could lead to fast-charging batteries for transportation March 18th,
2015display technology/LEDS/SS Lighting/OLEDS Engineers create chameleon-like artificial'skin'that shifts color on demand March 12th, 2015breakthrough in OLED technology March 2nd,
New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water March 18th, 2015imperfect graphene opens door to better fuel cells:
Membrane could lead to fast-charging batteries for transportation March 18th, 2015drexel Univ. materials research could unlock potential of lithium-sulfur batteries March 17th,
2015research partnerships FEI Joins University of Ulm and CEOS on SALVE Project Research Collaboration: The Sub-ngstrm Low Voltage Electron (SALVE) microscope should improve contrast
2015drexel Univ. materials research could unlock potential of lithium-sulfur batteries March 17th, 2015symmetry matters in graphene growth:
2015drexel Univ. materials research could unlock potential of lithium-sulfur batteries March 17th, 2015chip Technology 30 years after C60:
New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water March 18th, 2015materials/Metamaterials Drexel Univ. materials research could unlock potential of lithium-sulfur batteries March 17th, 2015four Scientists
Controlling particles with light and microfibers March 18th, 2015imperfect graphene opens door to better fuel cells: Membrane could lead to fast-charging batteries for transportation March 18th, 2015news and information 30 years after C60:
Fullerene chemistry with silicon: A long strived-for silicon dodecahedron synthesised at room temperature March 18th, 2015graphene'gateway'discovery opens possibilities for improved energy technologies March 18th, 2015clean energy future:
2015drexel Univ. materials research could unlock potential of lithium-sulfur batteries March 17th, 2015nanomedicine Nanobiotix appoints its Manufacturing Partner, Cordenpharma:
New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water March 18th, 2015imperfect graphene opens door to better fuel cells:
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New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water March 18th, 2015imperfect graphene opens door to better fuel cells:
Membrane could lead to fast-charging batteries for transportation March 18th, 2015interviews/Book reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers 30 years after C60:
New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water March 18th, 2015imperfect graphene opens door to better fuel cells:
Membrane could lead to fast-charging batteries for transportation March 18th, 201 2
#NC State researchers create'nanofiber gusher':'Report method of fabricating larger amounts of nanofibers in liquid A simple process for batch
which have potential applications in filtration, batteries and cell scaffolding. In a paper published online in Advanced Materials,
This leads to many enhanced products ranging from filters to cell scaffolds, printable bioinks, battery separators, plus many more."#
NC State Industrial & Systems Engineering Research Team Arms Implants With Battery-Activated Nanotechnology March 14th, 2015turmeric Extract Applied in Production of Antibacterial Nanodrugs March 12th,
#Drexel Univ. materials research could unlock potential of lithium-sulfur batteries Drexel researchers, along with colleagues at Aix-Marseille University in France, have discovered a high performance cathode material with great promise for use in next generation lithium-sulfur batteries that could one day be used to power
mobile devices and electric cars. Lithium-sulfur batteries have recently become one of the hottest topics in the field of energy storage devices due to their high energy density
--which is about four times higher than that of lithium-ion batteries currently used in mobile devices.
One of the major challenges for the practical application of lithium-sulfur batteries is to find cathode materials that demonstrate long-term stability.
An international research collaboration led by Drexel's Yury Gogotsi, Phd, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering and director of its Nanomaterials Research Group, has created a two-dimensional carbon/sulfur nanolaminate that could be a viable candidate for use as a lithium-sulfur
Distinguished professor in Drexel's Department of Materials science & Engineering, has been used as the basis for much of Drexel's materials research intended to find better materials for batteries.
This structure is key to their potential for being used as electrode materials for lithium-sulfur batteries.
Currently, sulfur infiltrated carbon nanomaterials have demonstrated to be the most promising cathode materials for Li-S batteries.
This may have a significant impact on increasing the life-span of next generation batteries.""We have enough evidence to show that that the electrochemical etching can be a powerful method to selectively extract the'M'elements from the MAX phases,
2015thin films Researchers synthesize new thin-film material for use in fuel cells: Article in the journal APL Materials shows how to grow Bi2pt2o7 pyrochlore, potentially a more effective cathode for future fuel cells March 10th, 2015graphene meets heat waves March 9th,
2015ciqus researchers obtain high-quality perovskites over large areas by a chemical method March 4th, 2015researchers enable solar cells to use more sunlight February 25th, 2015display technology/LEDS/SS Lighting/OLEDS Breakthrough in OLED technology March 2nd,
2015silk could be new'green'material for next-generation batteries March 11th, 2015military The Universitat Politcnica de Valncia is coordinating a European project to develop a device for the quick and early diagnosis of cancer March 7th,
Aerogel catalyst shows promise for fuel cells March 2nd, 2015simulating superconducting materials with ultracold atoms: Rice physicists build superconductor analog, observe antiferromagnetic order February 23rd, 2015aerospace/Space Anousheh Ansari Wins the National Space Society's Space Pioneer Award
2015discoveries Researchers synthesize new thin-film material for use in fuel cells: Article in the journal APL Materials shows how to grow Bi2pt2o7 pyrochlore, potentially a more effective cathode for future fuel cells March 10th,
2015the chameleon reorganizes its nanocrystals to change colors March 10th, 2015are current water treatment methods sufficient to remove harmful engineered nanoparticle?
2015interviews/Book reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers Researchers synthesize new thin-film material for use in fuel cells:
Article in the journal APL Materials shows how to grow Bi2pt2o7 pyrochlore, potentially a more effective cathode for future fuel cells March 10th,
#Researchers synthesize new thin-film material for use in fuel cells: Article in the journal APL Materials shows how to grow Bi2pt2o7 pyrochlore, potentially a more effective cathode for future fuel cells Abstract:
Researchers from Cornell University have synthesized a new thin-film catalyst for use in fuel cells. In a paper published March 10 in the journal APL Materials, from AIP Publishing, the team reports the first-ever epitaxial thin-film growth of Bi2pt2o7 pyrochlore,
which could act as a more effective cathode--a fundamental electrode component of fuel cells from which positive current flows through an external circuit delivering electric power."
"Up to now, research on oxygen catalysts in thin film form for clean energy applications has been focused on the perovskite-structured oxides
"The much less studied cubic pyrochlore structure is an appealing alternative to perovskites for such applications as fuel cell cathodes."
Epitaxial thin films can actually act as more efficient fuel cell catalysts than nanocrystalline powder, but growing Bi2pt2o7 directly as a film requires oxidizing the platinum metal--a challenging step.
thought to be one of the most promising oxide catalysts for fuel cell applications, "said Gutierrez-Llorente.
The cathode of a solid oxide fuel cell electrochemically reduces oxygen. Bi2pto7's oxygen-deficient structure makes it an ideal catalyst for the process.
Synthesizing the material as a thin film instead of as a bulk powder opens up new possibilities for fuel cell technology."
March 10th, 2015energy ORNL microscopy directly images problematic lithium dendrites in batteries March 7th, 2015iranian Scientists Apply Nanotechnology to Produce Electrical insulator March 7th,
2015automotive/Transportation Glass coating improves battery performance: To improve lithium-sulfur batteries, researchers added glass cage-like coating and graphene oxide March 2nd,
2015researchers turn unzipped nanotubes into possible alternative for platinum: Aerogel catalyst shows promise for fuel cells March 2nd, 2015scientific breakthrough in rechargeable batteries:
Researchers from Singapore and Qubec Team up to Develop Next-Generation Materials to Power Electronic devices and Electric vehicles February 28th,
2015in quest for better lithium-air batteries, chemists boost carbon's stability: Nanoparticle coatings improve stability, cyclability of'3dom'carbon February 25th, 201 2
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