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 ...

Better battery manufacturing: Robotic lab vets new reaction design strategy

Mixing unconventional ingredients in just the right order can make complex materials with fewer impurities

11-Apr-2024 - New chemistries for batteries, semiconductors and more could be easier to manufacture, thanks to a new approach to making chemically complex materials that researchers at the University of Michigan and Samsung’s Advanced Materials Lab have demonstrated. Their new recipes use unconventional ...

More efficient, lighter, more sustainable: researchers develop next-generation batteries

Completely new approach

01-Mar-2024 - Scientists at TU Darmstadt have achieved an important success in battery research: Using a new technology, they have succeeded in significantly improving the efficiency and charging properties of so-called zinc-air batteries. Their research results have now been published in the journal ...

Engineered battery chemistry for fast charging capabilities

An electrolyte additive increased the charging rate of lithium metal batteries and led to new discoveries about battery chemistry

31-Jan-2024 - On a mission to build better electric vehiclebatteries, chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have used an electrolyte additive to improve the functionality of energy-dense lithium metal batteries. By adding a compound called cesium nitrate to the ...

International battery policies: What strategies do the leading countries have?

Funding for battery research has increased significantly worldwide

23-Jan-2024 - Countries around the world are developing political strategies for battery technologies or adapting them to global developments. In this context, a new study by Fraunhofer ISI, commissioned by the BMBF, analyzes the various battery policies and objectives with a focus on three areas of battery ...

Battery researcher Valeria Nicolosi receives the Diels-Planck Medal

13-Oct-2023 - Valeria Nicolosi, Professor of Nanomaterials at Trinity College Dublin, is awarded the Diels Planck Medal of KiNSIS for her pioneering work in energy storage. This is the tenth time that the interdisciplinary network "Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science" at Kiel University has honoured ...

Accelerating battery research with robots

Smart, autonomous and chemistry-agnostic: The world urgently needs new types of energy storage

15-Sep-2023 - Empa researchers want to accelerate the development of urgently needed new energy storage systems with the help of the Aurora battery robot. The Aurora project is part of the European research initiative Battery2030+, which was recently awarded over 150 million euros in funding by the EU. In ...

Next-generation flow battery design sets records

Sugar additive plays a surprise role, boosting flow battery capacity and longevity for this grid energy resilience design

13-Jul-2023 - A common food and medicine additive has shown it can boost the capacity and longevity of a next-generation flow battery design in a record-setting experiment. A research team from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory reports that the flow battery, a design optimized ...

Stalactites and stalagmites in the battery?

New research could lead to longer-lasting batteries

20-Mar-2023 - They are considered the "Holy Grail" of battery research: so-called "solid-state batteries". They no longer have a liquid core, as is the case with today's batteries, but consist of a solid material. This leads to several advantages: Among other things, these batteries are more difficult to ...

New AI algorithm generates innovative substances on the basis of desired properties

Function determines form

23-Feb-2022 - Whether in medicine, battery research, or materials science, researchers everywhere are seeking innovative substances. In the process, they can often predict the desired chemical and physical properties in great detail, right down to atomic level. However, the range of all potential chemical ...