Fortum, BASF, and Nornickel sign cooperation agreement on battery recycling

09-Mar-2020 - Fortum, BASF, and Nornickel have signed a letter of intent to plan a battery recycling cluster in Harjavalta, Finland, serving the electric vehicle market. This would enable a successful “closed loop” cycle to re-use the critical metals present in used batteries. Using metals from recycled ...

A nacre-inspired separator coating for impact-tolerant lithium batteries

28-Feb-2020 - Lithium batteries are easy to explode? Scientists at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) may have a way to prevent. In modern life, lithium-ion batteries are used as mobile power sources in all aspects of daily life, thus the safety of lithium-ion batteries is very important. As ...

A composite membrane for long-life zinc-based flow batteries

26-Feb-2020 - Researchers led by Profs. LI Xianfeng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently developed a composite membranefor long-life zinc-based flow batteries. The zinc-based flow battery (ZFB) has capturedmuch attention as a stationary energy ...

Battery research: Finding the right blend!

24-Feb-2020 - In the battery of the future, solids will replace the currently used electrolyte solutions. A team of scientists at LMU has now developed a series of new sodium ion conductors. The secret of the best material in the series lies in the exact mixing of the ingredients. The days of conventional ...

Machine learning could speed the arrival of ultra-fast-charging electric car

21-Feb-2020 - Battery performance can make or break the electric vehicle experience, from driving range to charging time to the lifetime of the car. Now, artificial intelligence has made dreams like recharging an EV in the time it takes to stop at a gas station a more likely reality, and could help improve ...

Ultrasound device improves charge time and run time in lithium batteries

The device brings lithium metal batteries one step closer to commercial viability

20-Feb-2020 - Researchers at the University of California San Diego developed an ultrasound-emitting device that brings lithium metal batteries, or LMBs, one step closer to commercial viability. Although the research team focused on LMBs, the device can be used in any battery, regardless of chemistry. The ...

Using neutrons and X-rays to analyse the ageing of lithium batteries

11-Feb-2020 - An international team has used neutron and X-ray tomography to investigate the dynamic processes that lead to capacity degradation at the electrodes in lithium batteries. Using a new mathematical method, it was possible to virtually unwind electrodes that had been wound into the form of a compact ...

Army scientists look inside batteries with a molecular eye

10-Feb-2020 - Scientists are closer to understanding exactly what happens inside batteries that make them prone to fire, thanks to a molecular eye of sorts. Scientists at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory teamed with researchers from the U.S. Department of ...

JenaBatteries and BASF cooperate in the development of innovative power storage technology

Batteries for stationary storage of electricity from renewable energy sources

10-Feb-2020 - JenaBatteries GmbH and BASF are cooperating in the production of an electrolyte for a battery technology that is particularly suitable for stationary storage of electricity from renewable energy sources and for stabilizing conventional transmission grids. JenaBatteries, which has developed this ...

New electrode design may lead to more powerful batteries

06-Feb-2020 - New research by engineers at MIT and elsewhere could lead to batteries that can pack more power per pound and last longer, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as one of the battery's two electrodes, the anode. The new electrode concept comes from the laboratory of Ju Li, the ...