Energy Storage

This is a successful and growing industry. Indeed, IDTechEx projects that the $2billion conductive ink/paste sector will grow $3.2 billion in 2025 at the material level.

Scientists have developed a "smart" lithium-ion battery that gives ample warning before it overheats and bursts into flames.

Flexible batteries have had a difficult time because they are much more expensive than coin cells and they usually store relatively little energy. Nonetheless, there is pent up demand.

Flexible batteries have had a difficult time because they are much more expensive than coin cells and they usually store relatively little energy. Nonetheless, there is pent up demand.

Scientists have developed ultra-fast charging batteries that can be recharged up to 70 per cent in only two minutes.

Researchers have developed a novel yet simple technique, called diffusion driven layer-by-layer assembly, to construct graphene into porous three-dimensional (3D) structures for applications in devices such as batteries and supercapacitors.

A researcher has built the Advanced Electrolyte Model, a powerful tool used to analyze and identify potential electrolytes for battery systems.

The Taiwan Automotive International Forum and Exhibition is proving to be a lively affair with about 300 present and a high standard of excellence in presentations and participation - an apt celebration of ten years of industry partnership in Taiwan. Here are some themes, including information from many valuable personal conversations at the event - so rich with detail, any report can only give a few aspects.

In its new report, Functional Materials for Supercapacitors 2015-2025, IDTechEx considers that supercapacitors could replace 50% of lithium-ion batteries in 15 years from now.

The IDTechEx Printed Electronics and Energy Harvesting events focus on emerging thin and/or flexible photovoltaic technologies. This co-located event will cover printed electronics, energy harvesting, supercapacitors, wearable technologies and 3D printing and will attract in excess of 2,500 attendees and 200 exhibitors.

Panasonic Corporation has announced that it has developed a Pin Shaped Lithium Ion Battery (CG-320, nominal capacity 13mAh) with a diameter of 3.5mm and a weight of 0.6g suitable for powering small devices such as wearable devices.

Researchers have now found that crumpling a piece of graphene "paper" — a material formed by bonding together layers of the two-dimensional form of carbon — can actually yield new properties that could be useful for creating extremely stretchable supercapacitors to store energy for flexible electronic devices.

Is it a solar cell? Or a rechargeable battery? Actually, the patent-pending device invented at The Ohio State University is both: the world's first solar battery.

Using a bio-mimicking analog of one of nature's most efficient light-harvesting structures, blades of grass, an international research team led by Alejandro Briseno of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has taken a major step in developing long-sought polymer architecture to boost power-conversion efficiency of light to electricity for use in electronic devices.

Graphene quantum dots created at Rice University grab onto graphene platelets like barnacles attach themselves to the hull of a boat. But these dots enhance the properties of the mothership, making them better than platinum catalysts for certain reactions within fuel cells.

An international research group recently reported successful fabrication of stretchable and transparent supercapacitors based on graphene films.

INCORE's expertise is concentrated around imaging systems and optical methods for 100% surface inspection of continuous or discontinuous processes. The core activity of the company is to design and manufacture automatic surface inspection systems based on line scan cameras, high performance illumination and computer technology with their proprietary real time and post processing software solutions.

A new method developed for studying battery failures points to the potential next step in extending lithium ion battery lifetime and capacity, opening a path to wider use of these batteries in conjunction with renewable energy sources.

A new battery research platform has been inaugurated in Ulm, Germany.

Researchers have improved a proposed liquid battery system that could enable renewable energy sources to compete with conventional power plants.