Battery4Life: New COMET centre on battery safety led by TU Graz

Improving the safety, service life and sustainability of batteries

11-Jul-2024 - Researchers at the Vehicle Safety Institute will team up with national and international partners to make batteries safer, extend their service life and make them more sustainable. The FFG, the provinces Styria and Upper Austria as well as companies are investing about 19 million euros in ...

Electric Vehicle Batteries: The older they get, the safer they are

Approval of EVBs for a second life

04-May-2021 - Studies at TU Graz show that the older an traction battery of electric vehicles (EV) is, the lower the danger it poses. Now the researchers and industry partners want to define parameters for the subsequent use of discarded batteries. As part of the project "SafeBattery", a team from Graz ...

New findings pave the way to environmentally friendly supercapacitors

Sustainable, cost-effective, incombustible and easy to recycle

09-Oct-2020 - Similar to batteries, supercapacitors are suitable for the repeated storage of electrical energy. TU Graz researchers have presented a particularly safe and sustainable variant of such a supercapacitor in Nature Communications. Limited safety, sustainability and recyclability are key drawbacks ...

Ecological power storage battery made of vanillin

Researchers have found a way to convert the aromatic substance vanillin into a redox-active electrolyte material for liquid batteries

02-Oct-2020 - "It is ground-breaking in the field of sustainable energy storage technology," says Stefan Spirk from the Institute of Bioproducts and Paper Technology at Graz University of Technology. He and his team have succeeded in making redox-flow batteries more environmentally friendly by replacing their ...

“Frustrated” ions for solid-state batteries

06-Aug-2019 - An international team involving researchers from TU Graz has published research into a new solid-state electrolyte for batteries. The material exhibits one of the fastest lithium mobility processes ever measured in a lithium-ion conductor. Solid-state batteries are currently the most promising ...

New breakthroughs in research on super-batteries

Researchers have discovered a means of suppressing singlet oxygen formation in lithium-oxygen batteries

26-Apr-2019 - Since 2012, Stefan Freunberger of the Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Materials at TU Graz has been working on development of a new generation of batteries with enhanced performance and longer useful lives, and which are also cheaper to produce than current models. He believes that ...

Researchers show that enzyme function inhibits battery ageing

22-Mar-2017 - It has been known in biology for a long time that the excited oxygen molecule singlet oxygen is the main cause of ageing in cells. To counter this, nature uses an enzyme called superoxide dismutase to eliminate superoxide as a free radical. Superoxide also occurs in cell respiration for energy ...

Piggyback battery for microchips

TU Graz researchers develop new battery concept

19-Aug-2016 - Electrochemists at TU Graz have managed to use monocrystalline semiconductor silicon as an active storage electrode in lithium batteries. This enables an integrated power supply to be made for microchips with a rechargeable battery. Small electrical gadgets, such as mobile phones, tablets or ...

Solar cell + battery: TU Graz researches hybrid systems

01-Apr-2016 - In the FFG project SolaBat, TU Graz is entering almost new research territory. Photovoltaic cells are to be combined into one device with electrochemical energy storage systems. Whether fair weather or foul, sustainable energy supply must be independent of natural fluctuations of renewable energy ...

The Battery of the Future: New storage material improves energy density of lithium-ion battery

30-Oct-2009 - High-performance energy storage technologies for the automotive industry or mobile phone batteries and notebooks providing long battery times - these visions of the future are being brought one step nearer to the present by scientists from Graz University of Technology. Researchers at the ...