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Researchers make significant advancement into thermal runaway-free sodium-ion batteries
4+ hour, 53+ min 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…...
Titanium emerges as a vanadium alternative for redox flow batteries
2+ day, 7+ hour 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 charge-discharge…...
Conductive smart hydrogels as battery electrolytes: Promising for lithium, sodium, and zinc-ion chemistries
1+ week, 1+ day 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…...
Molecular solar battery stores energy for days, yields hydrogen on demand
2+ week, 3+ day ago (149+ words) ESS News Molecular solar battery stores energy for days, yields hydrogen on demand The approach decouples solar generation from hydrogen production " a departure from conventional systems that require electrolysis and renewable generation to run simultaneously. Once energy is stored in…...
2 D carbon selenide offers route to competitive sodium-ion batteries
3+ week, 2+ day ago (256+ words) A group of researchers at the'Delft University of Technology'(TU Delft) in the Netherlands has proposed to use'2 D carbon selenide (-CSe) as an anode material in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) in an effort to improve device performance and safety.' "At…...
Nano Malaysia unveils sodium-ion prototype surpassing 300 Wh/kg
4+ week, 2+ day ago (447+ words) ESS News Nano Malaysia unveils sodium-ion prototype surpassing 300 Wh/kg Nano Malaysia Berhad (NMB), an agency under Malaysia's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), has unveiled a sodium'ion battery prototype with an energy density exceeding 300 Wh/kg, positioning it…...
High temperature sodium-zinc batteries: Researchers use X-rays to find reasons for capacity loss
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (250+ words) That loss of efficiency and service life had previously only been possible to infer indirectly. Conventional electrochemical measurements capture current and voltage, but they cannot produce a complete picture of what is happening inside a cell. The problem is compounded…...
New design specifications for sodium-ion batteries
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (141+ words) Researchers from'Brown University'in the United States have investigated the behavior of sodium storage in carbon materials used in sodium-ion batteries, with the aim of improving their commercial viability for stationary renewable energy storage applications. "This helps us determine the optimal…...
Why sodium-ion can't yet challenge lithium-ion's reign
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (829+ words) ESS News Why sodium-ion can't yet challenge lithium-ion's reign The basic structure of Na-ion batteries closely resembles that of Li-ion batteries, consisting of positive and negative electrodes, an electrolyte, and a separator. Round-trip efficiencies are similar to Li-ion at 90-plus…...
Cambridge startup claims its electrolytes can triple flow battery energy density
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (832+ words) Kodiaq Technologies is developing organic electrolytes for redox flow batteries that it claims could achieve 300% the energy density of vanadium-based alternatives. The UK-based startup has developed an organic electrolyte that is currently able to store energy at up to 50 Wh…...