BASF and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology develop tomorrow's battery materials

01-Feb-2011 - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and BASF SE will jointly develop new battery materials at KIT in the future. The contract to establish the joint laboratory was signed by Professor Eberhard Umbach, President of KIT, and Dr. Andreas Kreimeyer, member of the Board of Executive Directors ...

Start of the Ulm Helmholtz Institute

New battery technologies to be in the focus of the research facility of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in cooperation with Ulm University

21-Jan-2011 - Development of efficient battery systems for future energy supply and mobility is the objective of the Ulm Helmholtz Institute for Electrochemical Energy Storage (HIU). This new research institution celebrated its opening in Ulm. "The new Helmholtz Institute for Electrochemical Energy Storage ...

BASF is building production facility for battery materials

Company launches construction activities in Elyria (Ohio), USA with support from US Department of Energy

17-Nov-2010 - In Elyria in the US State of Ohio, BASF has commenced construction of a $50+ million production facility for innovative cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries used to power hybrid and full-electric vehicles. The facility is being built with the help of a $24.6 million grant from the US ...

Merck and the University of Freiburg Announce Research Cooperation for Electric Battery Materials

09-Nov-2010 - Merck KGaA and the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg announced the commencement of a project to develop and manufacture new battery materials. Fundamentally new conducting salts for lithium-ion batteries to power hybrid and electric vehicles are to be developed in the Merck Battery Materials ...

Süd-Chemie reports marked upturn in business activity during first nine months of 2010

29-Oct-2010 - Süd-Chemie AG, Munich reported a positive performance for the first nine months of 2010. Following a weak start to the year, the specialty chemicals enterprise for catalysts and adsorbents recorded a marked upturn in business activity. Compared with the first three quarters of 2009, consolidated ...

ABB and GM to collaborate on electric car battery research

24-Sep-2010 - ABB and General Motors have signed a non-exclusive memorandum of understanding to cooperate on a research and development project that will investigate uses for electric vehicle batteries once their useful life in the vehicle is over. The project will examine the potential of reusing spent ...

Turbo test for chemical catalysts

Prof. Ferdi Schüth (MPI für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim), Dr. Dirk Demuth and Dr. Wolfram Stichert (hte AG, Heidelberg) have been nominated for the award “Deutscher Zukunftspreis“

23-Sep-2010 - Thanks to a process developed by Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth, Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim (Germany), and the scientists and technologists of hte Aktiengesellschaft in Heidelberg (Germany) headed by Dr. Dirk Demuth and Dr. Wolfram Stichert, the search for new and ...

ORNL scientists reveal battery behavior at the nanoscale

20-Sep-2010 - As industries and consumers increasingly seek improved battery power sources, cutting-edge microscopy performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is providing an unprecedented perspective on how lithium-ion batteries function. A research team led by ORNL's Nina Balke, ...

Electron switch between molecules points way to new high-powered organic batteries

17-Sep-2010 - The development of new organic batteries—lightweight energy storage devices that work without the need for toxic heavy metals—has a brighter future now that chemists have discovered a new way to pass electrons back and forth between two molecules. The research is also a necessary step toward ...

Wax, soap clean up obstacles to better batteries

Paraffin and surfactant oleic acid improve synthesis of lithium manganese phosphate electrodes

17-Aug-2010 - A little wax and soap can help build electrodes for cheaper lithium ion batteries, according to a study in August 11 issue of Nano Letters. The one-step method will allow battery developers to explore lower-priced alternatives to the lithium ion-metal oxide batteries currently on the ...