LANXESS wins ICIS Innovation Award for LFP battery materials

LANXESS also examines production of iron phosphate as a precursor for LFP

10-Sep-2024 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has developed new high-quality iron oxides for use in lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries and received the ICIS Innovation Award 2024. The award in the category “Best Product Innovation from a Large Company” recognizes LANXESS’ outstanding contribution to ...

Chemours Opens State-of-the-Art Battery Innovation Center to Accelerate the Evolution of Electric Vehicle Batteries

The facility will enable more sustainable, cost-effective, and high-performing EV batteries

15-Aug-2024 - The Chemours Company announced the opening of the Chemours Battery Innovation Center (CBIC), a first-in-its-class laboratory facility located at the Chemours Discovery Hub in Newark, Delaware. A multi-million-dollar investment, the CBIC supports the testing and scaling of next generation battery ...

Research cooperation: LANXESS and IBU‑tec to develop iron oxides for LFP battery material

Reduced carbon footprint of batteries through use of local raw materials

24-Jan-2024 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS and battery materials manufacturer IBU-tec advanced materials have entered into a research cooperation in the battery sector. The goal of the two German companies is to develop innovative iron oxides for the production of cathode material for LFP batteries and ...

Electromobility: New early warning system to provide better protection against burning lithium-ion batteries

New system measures and analyzes impedance

26-Oct-2023 - Burning lithium batteries in cars can quickly become a danger to people and the environment. Previous warning systems react only a few minutes before a battery spontaneously ignites, the so-called thermal runaway. The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), together with ...

Umicore speeds up its EV battery materials R&D with unique large-scale prototyping center for solid-state battery materials

30-Jun-2023 - Umicore has inaugurated one of the world‘s largest and most advanced solid-state battery material prototyping facilities in Olen, Belgium, which will expand and accelerate its innovation and technology development in this domain. Solid state batteries are expected to propel electric mobility and ...

Two young researchers on their way to becoming entrepreneurs

Start-ups for environmentally friendly batteries and nanoparticles for cancer therapy in planning

27-Mar-2023 - Two young Empa scientists each receive an Empa Entrepreneur Fellowship to develop innovative products based on their research. Abdessalem Aribia is developing environmentally friendly and safe batteries, while Subas Scheibler is working on nanoparticles for cancer therapy. The Empa Entrepreneur ...

Spinoff opens new frontier for batteries

Blue Current achieves success with a breakthrough material: Top priority has been to develop a completely safe battery

03-Jan-2023 - There is broad consensus that there is no silver bullet for climate change. Rather, many solutions will be required. What makes the challenge particularly daunting is the enormous reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed in a short period of time. Some experts are concerned that there is not ...

Max Planck spin-off develops more efficient batteries

Batene starts with ten million euros in seed financing

16-Nov-2022 - An invention by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research could make batteries much more energy dense, efficient and safer. The research team has found a way to produce very fine metal fleeces, the batene fleece, that can serve as current collectors in batteries and make them ...

Clean-tech startup launches to create grid-scale battery infrastructure for greater use of wind and solar power

An innovative redox-flow battery

24-Oct-2022 - A new startup, Quino Energy, aims to bring to market a grid-scale energy storage solution developed by Harvard researchers to facilitate more widespread adoption of renewable energy sources. About 12% of U.S. utility-scale electricity generation currently comes from wind and solar sources, which ...

Fast charging over 10,000 cycles: Harvard engineers’ solid-state battery technology points to a leap in performance and reliability

Startup granted technology license from Harvard to scale innovative lithium-metal battery technology for commercial deployment

08-Sep-2022 - Harvard’s Office of Technology Development has granted an exclusive technology license to Adden Energy, Inc., a startup developing innovative solid-state battery systems for use in future electric vehicles (EVs) that would fully charge in minutes. Adden Energy has closed a seed round with $5.15M ...