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 [...]
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 [...]
Nov
12
Ionic Liquids For Your Air Battery
November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
An Arizona State University spin off, Fluidic Energy in Scottsdale, AZ, was awarded a U.S. Department of Energy research grant of $5.13 million at the end of October 2009. Fluidic Energy says it can develop a metal-air battery that dramatically outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market. Now the company has the cash coming [...]
Nov
10
A Better Lithium Battery
November 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
A Better Lithium Battery
Dr. Stefan Koller with his team at the Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Materials Graz University of Technology has developed a new method to utilize silicon in lithium-ion anode materials. The news stories are saying silicon applied to the anodes raises theoretical storage capacity ten times higher than the graphite substrate, [...]
