Energy Storage

Energy storage has long been the most critical challenge for electric vehicles or hybrid electric vehicles. There is a new trend of using supercapacitors to complement or even replace batteries as energy storage devices to improve the vehicles' performance.

Graphene finds users in California (Our most exciting graphene conference so far).

Sinode systems was founded in 2012 as a spin out from Northwestern University. The company has developed a silicon-graphene composite material for lithium-ion batteries and it is the exclusive licensee of the patents held by Northwestern University.

High power energy harvesting (HPEH) is the clean part of off-grid renewable energy and its main potential lies at kilowatts to megawatts. Few things are genuinely new in this world but newly important aspects of energy harvesting really matter.

Thought leaders IDTechEx were among the first to identify three new megatrends in the world of technology: Structural Electronics (SE); 3D Printed Electronics (3DPE); Energy Independent Electric Vehicles (EIVs).

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 27 October 2015.

Micro-supercapacitors are a promising alternative to micro-batteries because of their high power and long lifetime. They have been in development for about a decade but until now they have stored considerably less energy than micro-batteries, which has limited their application.

Formula One racing gave us the disk brake and more recently led to 60,000 rpm energy harvesting flywheels on London Buses. No one planned to make a London bus look like a Formula One racing car but the bus people saw their future in racing technology.

Whilst existing battery technologies such as lead acid and lithium-ion batteries will dominate the battery market in the following 10 years, advanced and post lithium-ion batteries given the right conditions can potentially take a considerable dent of about 10% of whole battery market by 2026.

Can portabello mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time?

The open-access lab will provide space to build and test battery concepts while fully protecting the intellectual property of its users.

IDTechEx reports Dr. Cai's work in Lithium Sulphur Batteries at General Motors Research and Development.Dr. Cai presented her work at the Battery Show in Novi Michigan in September 2015.

Paraclete Energy Corp. is a company focused on silicon materials, originally focusing in photovoltaic cell technology the company decide to move to silicon anode materials. The company is commercializing a silicon-carbon composite with a surface modifier which they can double the capacity of standard graphite anodes whilst achieving 1000 cycles.

IDTechEx report from a FlexTech Alliance workshop on novel & innovative power sources for lightweight devices and wearable electronics

Leaders cover high power and low power energy harvesting at the World's largest event on energy harvesting technologies and their application, Energy Harvesting & Storage USA, to be held in Santa Clara on November 18-19.

Video interview with Eight19 at Printed Electronics Europe.

The scientists whose job it is to test the limits of what nature—specifically chemistry— will allow to exist, just set up shop on some new real estate on the Periodic Table.

Bosch is debuting a new battery technology for electric cars that could be production-ready in as little as five years.

The most dramatic new advances and visions have no name initially. So it is with electric vehicles that need no external charging or refuelling - no, not even wireless charging.

UES Inc has been awarded a $45,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by the US Air Force for research and development efforts for the Soft Organic Functional Technology program.