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2014

Battery small enough to be injected, energetic enough to track salmon

Scientists have created a microbattery that packs twice the energy compared to current microbatteries used to monitor the movements of salmon through rivers in the Pacific Northwest and around the world.

Microscopy system delivers real-time view of battery electrochemistry

Using a new microscopy method, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can image and measure electrochemical processes in batteries in real time and at nanoscale resolution.

Samsung Electronics

The first successful ultra high transparency barrier material, which was commercialized by Vitex, was originally developed by GE in a process designed to be used for capacitor fabrication. This process is called the Polymer Multi-Layer (PML) process. It was developed in the late 1970's and early 1980's at GE's capacitor division in Hudson Falls, NY for the fabrication of multilayer, polymer/aluminum capacitors. By2011, most of the company's IP had been acquired by Samsung

Battery development may extend range of electric cars

A "hybrid" anode developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory could quadruple the life of lithium-sulfur batteries.

Batteries as they are meant to be seen

Researchers have developed a way to microscopically view battery electrodes while they are bathed in wet electrolytes, mimicking realistic conditions inside actual batteries.

2013

Clean Energy Institute will focus on solar, battery technologies

A new University of Washington institute to develop efficient, cost-effective solar power and better energy storage systems has been launched.

Experimental Analysis of a Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting System for Harmonic, Random, and Sine on Random Vibration

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States

Better batteries through biology?

Lithium-air batteries have become a hot research area in recent years: They hold the promise of drastically increasing power per battery weight, which could lead, for example, to electric cars with a much greater driving range.

Better batteries through biology?

researchers have found that adding genetically modified viruses to the production of nanowires — wires that are about the width of a red blood cell, and which can serve as one of a battery's electrodes — could help solve some problems.

Team observes real-time charging of a lithium-air battery

Researchers at MIT and Sandia National Laboratories have used transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging to observe, at a molecular level, what goes on during a reaction called oxygen evolution as lithium-air batteries charge; this reaction is thought to be a bottleneck limiting further improvements to these batteries.

Team observes real-time charging of a lithium-air battery

Researchers at MIT and Sandia National Laboratories have used transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging to observe, at a molecular level, what goes on during a reaction called oxygen evolution as lithium-air batteries charge; this reaction is thought to be a bottleneck limiting further improvements to these batteries. The TEM technique could help in finding ways to make such batteries practical in the near future.

Breakthrough in race to create 'bio-batteries'

Proteins on the surface of bacteria can produce an electric current by simply touching a mineral surface.

The keys to success in graphene commercialization

Graphene has received tremendous global interest because of record-breaking performance in electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and strength, among other properties.

Graphene could lead to faster-charging batteries for electric vehicles

An agreement will allow Vorbeck to bring lithium batteries incorporating Vor-x graphene technology to market for use in consumer portable electronic and medical devices, tools and electric vehicles.

Graphene technology will lead to faster-charging batteries for EVs

An enhanced battery technology that can potentially reduce the time it takes to charge cell phones, electric vehicles and other battery-powered devices from hours to minutes is the subject of a commercial license agreement between Battelle and Vorbeck Materials Corp.

2012

DoE awards up to $120 million for battery hub to Argonne-led group

A multi-partner team led by Argonne National Laboratory has been selected for an award of up to $120 million over five years to establish a new Batteries and Energy Storage Hub.

$120 million for battery research

The Hub, to be known as the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), will combine the R&D firepower of five DOE national laboratories, five universities, and four private firms in an effort aimed at achieving revolutionary advances in battery performance.

Breakthrough graphene technology wins R&D Magazine award

Vorbeck Materials, in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Labs (PNNL) and Princeton University, was recognized last week by R&D Magazine for developing one of the 100 most significant scientific and technological products or advances of the year.

2011

DOE awards over $7 million to advance hydrogen storage technologies

Energy department awards more than $7 mllion for inovative hydrogen storage technologies in fuel cell electric vehicles.

Bubbles help break energy storage record

Foam-based graphene keeps oxygen flowing in battery that holds promise for electric vehicles.