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 ...

3D X-rays measure particle movement inside lithium ion batteries

23-May-2018 - Lithium ion batteries have come a long way since their introduction in the late 1990s. They're used in many everyday devices, such as laptop computers, mobile phones, and medical devices, as well as automotive and aerospace platforms, and others. However, lithium ion battery performance still can ...

A new type of powerful battery

Move over, lithium-ion - now, there's a better battery on the horizon

07-Feb-2018 - A multi-institution team of scientists led by Texas A&M University chemist Sarbajit Banerjee has discovered an exceptional metal-oxide magnesium battery cathode material, moving researchers one step closer to delivering batteries that promise higher density of energy storage on top of ...

Coupling experiments to theory to build a better battery

22-Jan-2018 - Lithium-sulfur batteries are promising candidates for replacing common lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles since they are cheaper, weigh less, and can store nearly double the energy for the same mass. However, lithium-sulfur batteries become unstable over time, and their electrodes ...

Surprising discovery could lead to better batteries

16-Jan-2018 - A collaboration led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has observed an unexpected phenomenon in lithium-ion batteries--the most common type of battery used to power cell phones and electric cars. As a model battery generated electric current, the ...

Safer batteries by adding diamonds

29-Aug-2017 - While lithium-ion batteries, widely used in mobile devices from cell phones to laptops, have one of the longest lifespans of commercial batteries today, they also have been behind a number of recent meltdowns and fires due to short-circuiting in mobile devices. In hopes of preventing more of ...

Graphene-nanotube hybrid boosts lithium metal batteries

22-May-2017 - Rice University scientists have created a rechargeable lithium metal battery with three times the capacity of commercial lithium-ion batteries by resolving something that has long stumped researchers: the dendrite problem. The Rice battery stores lithium in a unique anode, a seamless hybrid of ...

Advanced atomic layer deposition enables lithium-ion battery technology

11-May-2017 - The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Forge Nano to commercialize NREL's patented battery materials and systems capable of operating safely in high-stress environments. A particular feature of the ...

Tweaking electrolyte makes better lithium-metal batteries

03-Mar-2017 - Scientists have found adding a pinch of something new to a battery's electrolyte gives the energy storage devices more juice per charge than today's commonly used rechargeable batteries. New, early-stage research shows adding a small amount of the chemical lithium hexafluorophosphate to a ...

Lithium-ion battery inventor introduces new technology for fast-charging, noncombustible batteries

02-Mar-2017 - A team of engineers led by 94-year-old John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, has developed the first all-solid-state battery cells that could lead to safer, faster-charging, longer-lasting ...