4+ hour, 27+ min ago   (250+ words) An international team of scientists has conducted a literature review of recent advances and future prospects for key components of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). SIBs store and release energy by shuttling sodium ions between the cathode and anode through an electrolyte…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (335+ words) ESS News AI framework identifies five novel oxide candidates for battery hosts Researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have identified five previously unreported oxide compositions that could serve as electrode hosts for…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (357+ words) Australia’s AnteoTech has launched a new cross-linker additive for use in primer coatings on copper foil anode and aluminium foil cathode current collectors in lithium-ion batteries. The company said its Anteo C product is a PFAS-free, water-based cross-linker that stabilizes…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (222+ words) Scientists used boron nitride, a synthetic crystalline compound, to build membranes containing millions of microscopic tubes that move lithium ions far faster than other charged particles. Lithium transport was observed at up to 31 times the rate expected from standard diffusion....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (176+ words) Safe and sustainable zinc batteries have made major inroads in the energy storage space over the past five years, accumulating $1.3 billion in combined private and public investment and leading to a half-dozen factory builds. Last month I enjoyed collaborating with…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (456+ words) ESS News New electrolyte tech enables stable operation of high-voltage sodium-ion batteries Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a meta-weakly solvating electrolyte that can reportedly enable stable operation of high-voltage sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries....

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (413+ words) Researchers at the Tokyo University of Science in Japan report a breakthrough in improving the stability of sodium-ion batteries under ambient conditions through a new calcium-doping strategy. Sodium-ion batteries have long struggled with surface instability in air and water, particularly…...

4+ mon, 3+ hour ago   (285+ words) A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics has published a paper in Nature Energy showing a potentially game-changing development in electrolytes for sodium-ion batteries that may accelerate the commercial use of sodium-ion technology. The…...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago   (310+ words) A Japanese-Chinese research team has developed a titanium molten salt redox-flow battery (TMSRB) that uses titanium ions as the redox-active material and molten salt as electrolyte. Intended for use in grid-scale energy storage, the TMSRB is designed to provide higher…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (484+ words) ESS News Conductive smart hydrogels as battery electrolytes: Promising for lithium, sodium, and zinc-ion chemistries Battery research in industry and acadaemia continues to advance ideas in electrodes and electrolytes, covering materials, designs, safety, efficacy, and green credentials. In most cases…...