Energy Storage

A new fabrication technique that produces platinum hollow nanocages with ultra-thin walls could dramatically reduce the amount of the costly metal needed to provide catalytic activity in such applications as fuel cells.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 18 August 2015.

Ongoing interviews by IDTechEx across the world reveal that new power electronic systems are being designed on the assumption that 48V systems will be adopted for conventional cars in the next five years.

Buses are now a crucible of change, often adopting new technology before cars.

Summary of the first day of the EV Roadmap 8 event taking place in Portland, Oregon

Totally different. Everything that constitutes a hybrid or pure electric vehicle will change beyond recognition, advises analyst group IDTechEx.

Scientists in China have developed a new method for connecting energy devices without using wires.

In this instalment of our graphene series we discuss commercialising flexible graphene supercapacitors.

Another instalment in our series on the graphene industry.

IDTechEx will be back in Tokyo, Japan for their highly regarded series of Business Insight Forums.

IDTechEx will be back in Tokyo, Japan for their highly regarded series of Business Insight Forums. Taking place at the UDX Conference Center on 29 September, this expert-led Insight Forum will provide you with critical business intelligence and the latest insights into the 3D printing market.

Jenax has been listed on KOSDAQ, South Korea's Stock Exchange, since 2002. Its main business is in the iron and steel industry. It started to diversify into flexible batteries around 2010 and showed its first flexible battery prototype in 2015 at CES in Las Vegas, USA and in the Wearable Expo in Tokyo, Japan.

Bess-Tech is commercializing a technology to manufacture doped Si anodes for Li ion batteries. The difference with direct competitors is that the anode is a direct silicon carpet on current collectors, and is not supplied as a Si-C composite.

These forums will both address the business and technologies involved - providing significant market data to allow you to understand these complex landscapes.

IDTechEx will be back in Tokyo, Japan for their highly regarded series of Business Insight Forums.

Supercapacitors have seen tremendous improvements over the past decade, resulting in higher power density, higher energy density and lower prices. Electrodes have seen the most amount of attention, effort and development. In this article however, we focus instead on electrolytes and separators. Directions in electrolyte research are towards high voltage, more stable and greener solutions. Similarly, separators need to improve purity and high voltage stability. This is particularly true if paper separators are to succeed. We will discuss these developments in this article.

48V systems are close to adoption in some new cars across the world partly to cope with the greater amount of electricity being stored and distributed. They are also becoming attractive for some of the more basic electric vehicles.

Arkema and Hydro-Québec, through its subsidiary SCE France, have announced the signature of a partnership for the creation of a joint laboratory for research and development in the energy storage sector.

One of the most important things to understand in battery technology is the precise physical and chemical processes that occur at the electrode/electrolyte interface.

Researchers have found a promising new approach to delivering the short but intense bursts of power needed by such small devices.