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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stora Enso's wood-based battery material wins Metsä360 award

As a material for lithium-ion batteries, lignin has the potential to radically transform traditional industries

22-Nov-2021 - Stora Enso's bio-based battery material Lignode® by Stora Enso has won the Metsä360 award in Finland. The EUR 30000 prize, funded by the Marjatta and Eino Kolli Foundationwas granted for the second time, was announced at the Lahti Science Day on 18 November 2021. The jury concluded that the ...

Sodium is the new lithium

A way to boost sodium-ion battery performance

04-Feb-2019 - Researchers at the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) in Japan have demonstrated that a specific material can act as an efficient battery component for sodium-ion batteries that will compete with lithium-ion batteries for several battery characteristics, especially speed of charge. The ...

Arkema invests in development of lithium-sulfur batteries

24-Jan-2019 - Arkema works alongside battery manufacturers, and contributes to optimizing battery performance thanks to its materials and innovative solutions. Arkema’s acquisition of a stake in Oxis Energy is consistent with this strategic ambition and this commitment to anticipating the technologies of ...

A stabilizing influence enables lithium-sulfur battery evolution

Stable cathode and five-second fabrication technique could boost adoption of Li-S batteries

19-Oct-2018 - In late July of 2008 a British solar plane set an unofficial flight-endurance record by remaining aloft for more than three days straight. Lithium-sulfur batteries emerged as one of the great technological advances that enabled the flight -powering the plane overnight with efficiency unmatched by ...

3D-printed lithium-ion batteries

18-Oct-2018 - Electric vehicles and most electronic devices, such as cell phones and laptop computers, are powered by lithium-ion batteries. Until now, manufacturers have had to design their devices around the size and shape of commercially available batteries. But researchers have developed a new method to 3D ...

New carbon could signal step-change for the world's most popular batteries

27-Jun-2018 - Scientists have created a new type of carbon that could make the batteries in our phones, tablet computers and laptops safer, more powerful, quicker to charge and longer lasting. An international team of researchers, led by Lancaster University and Jilin University in China, have announced the ...

Nickel ferrite promotes capacity and cycle stability of lithium-sulfur battery

15-Jun-2018 - Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery can be put into practice, if 20% of theoretical energy densities (2600 Wh/kg or 2800 Wh/L) can be achieved. Investigators have the ambition to reach the energy density of 500 Wh/kg in the near future. Xue-Ping Gao and co-workers, from Nankai University, tell us "Till ...