Jun
28
A New and Very Big Lithium Ion Battery Claim
June 28, 2010 | 5 Comments
When it comes to batteries one gets a little jaded by all the press releases and stories. A check back to two years ago about the breakthroughs at that time shows little has come to the market. Yet the research field is packed with innovation trying to build up more capacity and recharge cycles. The [...]
Jun
22
Its How You Make Things That Makes the Difference
June 22, 2010 | 3 Comments
The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Graduate School has announced electrode materials made by adding lithium iron phosphate (positive-electrode material, LiFePO4) and tin oxide (negative-electrode material, SnO2), respectively, inside carbon. The new process drastically improves the performance of the materials in lithium-ion (Li-ion) rechargeable batteries by using an ultracentrifugal processing technology to add an [...]
May
11
Lithium Air Battery Update
May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The perfect car battery will have to balance many different factors, it’s powerful, has endurance, isn’t too expensive and never, ever explodes. For now the lithium air battery is just equations in the notebooks of researchers. Don Hillebrand, who directs the Center for Transportation Research at Argonne National Laboratory, was quoted at Climatewire saying, “Theoretically, [...]
Apr
5
Lithium Ion Batteries Will Lose Weight
April 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
Yang Shao-Horn, an MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering has made significant progress on a technology that could lead to batteries with up to three times the energy density of any battery that currently exists. Shao-Horn said many groups have been pursuing work on lithium-air batteries, a technology that has [...]
Mar
18
Lithium Sulfur Battery Progress
March 18, 2010 | 8 Comments
Lithium based batteries are a hot research field with lithium air and lithium sulfur compounds at the top of research listings. Stanford’s Yi Cui, builds the battery anode in the form of silicon nanowires, giving the silicon room to grow and shrink without damage. That neatly solves silicon’s swelling when charged with positively charged lithium [...]
Mar
12
A New and Promising Battery Charging Idea
March 12, 2010 | 8 Comments
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 | 10 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 [...]
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 [...]
