Energy Storage

Raghu Das, CEO and Chris Clare, Event Director, IDTechEx tells you what to expect at the upcoming IDTechEx Show! held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 15-16 2017.

Power on the go is in demand: The higher the battery capacity, the larger the range of electric cars and the longer the operating time of cell phones and laptops.

Opening the IDTechEx Show! in Santa Clara, Nov 15-16, are four select Cornerstone presentations which will showcase how new technologies are coming to market which solve big problems created by changing demographics and global megatrends, from mobility to healthcare to enabling the ubiquity of electronics.

Imagine printing off a wristband that charges your smartphone or electric car with cheap supplies from a local hardware store.

Nexeon is a British company working on silicon pillar anode materials for advanced Li-ion batteries. The anodes come in a low loading (10%) and high loading (30%) configuration.

Gnanomat is a Spanish graphene company established in 2014. It is developing a platform that will enable it to offer customized graphene and graphene derivatives to application developers.

245 organizations from 23 countries will be exhibiting at the IDTechEx Show! on November 15-16 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California.

Wind and solar power are increasingly popular sources for renewable energy. But intermittency issues keep them from connecting widely to the grid.

We will be hosting 11th global Graphene and 2D Materials event in Santa Clara (CA), USA, on November 15 & 16. This is the most important business-focused conference and exhibition on Graphene and 2D Materials, providing all the players with an unparalleled opportunity to find and secure commercial interest, to develop global business relationships across the entire value chain and to learn about the latest technological and commercial developments.

Battery alliance announced in Brussels aims to expedite European battery cell manufacturing.

Analyst Lorenzo Grande was at EVS30 in Stuttgart to learn about new developments and products, as well as to attend the co-located conference on batteries and fuel cells.

As a warming world moves from fossil fuels toward renewable solar and wind energy, industrial forecasts predict an insatiable need for battery farms to store power and provide electricity when the sky is dark and the air is still.

IDTechEx analyst Khasha Ghaffarzadeh attended the Graphene China event in Nanjing to learn more about graphene production which has been shifting towards China.

Now gone bust, Planar Energy was a company developing thio-LISICON electrolytes for solid-state batteries. The company claimed to have developed a high-speed deposition process that could significantly reduce the cost of solid-state electrolyte manufacturing.

This presentation shares some of the research for the IDTechEx report, "Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles 2017-2027"

If you're wondering when a hydrogen-powered car will become a viable option for you, take heart. A team may have overcome a significant hurdle to manufacturing hydrogen fuel cells by creating a way to check whether the expensive catalysts the cells need have been incorporated quickly and effectively.

Toshiba Corporation announced the development of its next-generation SCiBTM, which uses a new material to double the capacity of the battery anode.

IDTechEx analysts have long warned that the leading lithium-ion battery manufacturers have been taking risks in their headlong redesigns to obtain higher energy and power density, lower cost per kWh and ironically better safety, for example from less-flammable and non-flammable electrolytes.

Using a simple layer-by-layer coating technique, researchers have developed a paper-based flexible supercapacitor that could be used to help power wearable devices.

Interbattery 2017 took place from the 27th to the 29th September in Seoul, South Korea. IDTechEx analyst Lorenzo Grande attended the conference and has reported on his experience.