Mar
12
A New and Promising Battery Charging Idea
March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
A group of Mississippi State University researchers in the school’s Center for Computational Sciences, the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Department of Chemistry with collaborators at Florida State University’s Department of Physics and the Center for Materials Research and Technology has a new lithium ion battery charging technique in early research. The results are [...]
Mar
4
A Major Lithium Ion Battery Improvement Is Verified
March 4, 2010 | 4 Comments
Planar Energy has received the official confirmation of engineering samples performance from the University of Central Florida that verify the company’s internal tests. Scott Faris, President and CEO of Planar Energy says, “This fundamental materials breakthrough, coupled with our proprietary low-cost manufacturing process, will render traditional chemical batteries obsolete.” Bold words . . .
“It will [...]
Feb
18
A Better Lithium Ion Battery Technology
February 18, 2010 | 6 Comments
Boston College Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dunwei Wang’s paper about web-like nanonets developments has been published in Nano Letters. The development suggests a major breakthrough for lithium ion battery technology.
The ‘nanonets’ are tiny scaffold-like structures that are built like a web. Wang’s nanonets are made with titanium disilicide, and coated with silicon particles that are [...]
Feb
10
A Battery That Can Be Made Into Panels
February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Researchers from Imperial College London, their European partners, and the Volvo Car Corporation, are expanding development of a prototype battery material which can store and discharge electrical energy. The material is also strong and lightweight enough to be used for car parts and can be shaped to fit into panels as needed.
The researchers expect that [...]
Feb
5
The Battery Explosion Is Coming, Part Two
February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
The cover story at Nikkei Electronics Asia titled ‘Winning in the Gigantic New EV Market’ examines over 16 web pages the positioning of industry in lithium ion battery production. Its a long piece so I’ll condense it down, but by all means if you’re interested in a world view seen from the Japanese point of [...]
Feb
4
The Battery Explosion Is Coming, Part One
February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The cover story at Nikkei Electronics Asia titled ‘Winning in the Gigantic New EV Market’ examines over 16 web pages the positioning of industry in lithium ion battery production. Its a long piece so I’ll condense it down, but by all means if you’re interested in a world view seen from the Japanese point of [...]
Jan
21
The Battery Hopes for Electric Vehicles Improve
January 21, 2010 | 3 Comments
Felix Kramer, the founder of the California Cars Initiative, a Palo Alto CA based nonprofit, has an opinion or overview or criticism on the widely held views on battery technology that’s being applied to electric vehicles. It’s a long one available at GreenChipStocks.com. For you I’m going to review it, check some bits and opinionate [...]
Jan
8
Printing Lithium Ion Batteries
January 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Advanced Materials Innovation Center (AMIC) of MIE Industry and Enterprise Support Center, a Japan-based foundation, has developed a lithium polymer battery that can be manufactured by printing technology.
The research group used a normal sheet-shaped flexible substrate but employed a printing technology that can be applied to roll-to-roll production. When a roll-to-roll production method is [...]
Dec
24
Understanding Digital Quantum Capacitors
December 24, 2009 | 3 Comments
To start, lets get the digital quantum battery misnomer out of the way. What’s being discussed here and other places isn’t about battery building; it’s about a theoretical construction of a nano-sized capacitor. It’s interesting as the storage medium isn’t like a conventional capacitor with the material between the anode and cathode holding the energy. [...]
Nov
30
Solid State Lithium Air Battery Might Be a Breakthrough
November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Binod Kumar, leader of the University of Dayton Research Institute has published in the 2010 Issue 1 of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society that the group has developed the first solid-state, rechargeable lithium-air battery. Kumar is calling this a breakthrough designed to address the fire and explosion risk of other lithium rechargeable batteries and [...]
