Energy Storage

Recycled tires could see new life in lithium-ion batteries that provide power to plug-in electric vehicles and store energy produced by wind and solar.

IDTechEx is organizing its fifth business-focused conference and tradeshow on graphene and 2D materials in Santa Clara, CA on November 19 & 20. Graphene and 2D Materials LIVE! covers the latest technology developments, applications, commercialization progress and end user requirements for these and related materials such as carbon nanotubes.

Haydale has announced a major marketing agreement with planarTECH LLC to accelerate the commercial application of its conductive inks, graphene nanoplatelets, carbon nanotubes and other high performance nanomaterial systems.

On-board chargers and DC-DC converters use similar components to the inverters that are the main focus of this article and they face the same issues in the main, such as improving space, weight, cost and efficiency.

Graphene electrodes are one of the best prospects for enabling supercapacitors and superbatteries to take up to half of the lithium-ion battery market in 15 years - amounting to tens of billions of dollars yearly.

Maxwell Technologies, Inc has announced that Win Inertia is using its ultracapacitors for a stationary wayside braking energy recuperation system at an electric rail system in Cerro Negro, Spain.

Those making or intending to make electric cars or their components have big strategy decisions ahead.

Graphene could radically improve batteries and supercapacitors as explained in the new IDTechEx report Functional Materials for Supercapacitors/Ultracapacitors/EDLC 2015-2025.

Can a fuel cell consume rather than produce CO2 to create energy?

FlexEl was founded in 2008 and is based in Maryland. It works with partner companies to create, design, develop, license and/or manufacture novel flexible electronics and power management systems.

KH Chemical is a company established in 2001. It currently has 1tpa production capacity for SWCNTs (singled walled CNTs). It has 11 employees. The company was started with a capital of $3.9m USD.

Scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can pack as much energy and power as graphene, long-touted as the model material for supercapacitors.

Engineers have achieved a breakthrough in the race for safer, longer-lasting batteries to power the world's automobiles, cell phones, computers and autonomous robots.

Powering the internet of things: simple words to type but not necessarily the simplest of tasks to undertake. This article explores synergies between IoT, energy harvesting and storage and printed electronics.

UK-based Cenex is part of a consortium which has just completed a two-year project to reduce both the weight and cost of EV batteries, succeeding by shaving 99 pounds, or about 41% of the weight off a standard EV battery.

Supercapacitors continue to improve faster than lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries, something pointed out by Bombardier and IDTechEx some time ago. There is near consensus that commercial Li-ion batteries will not improve more than a factor of two in cost and energy density in the next decade.

Researchers have used a special type of graphene material, called holey graphene framework because of its three-dimensional perforated structure, to advance the energy density of an electrochemical capacitor to levels equal to those of lead acid batteries.

OCSiAl was formed three years ago but only came out of stealth more in Q1 2014. OCSiAl has raised substantial funds and has also recently acquired Zyvex Nanotechnologies, a USA company that specialized in producing CNT composites and launched many high-profile technology demonstrators. OCSiAl is bringing to the market a carbon nanotube (CNT) offering that contains >75% SWCNT (single-walled carbon nanotubes) and is competitively priced.

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 19 August.

Skeleton Technologies, European manufacturer of ultracapacitor technology for energy efficiency in transportation, industrial and defence and space applications, has completed Round A financing of €3.9 million (US$5.4 million).