Energy Storage

Each year IDTechEx Research releases its up-to-date market report on graphene and related materials: Graphene and 2D Materials: Markets, Technologies and Opportunities 2015-2025.

In a new study, researchers explain why one particular cathode material works well at high voltages, while most other cathodes do not.

A new design strategy has emerged for making batteries flexible.

Researchers have discovered the structure and transport properties of the "intermediate state" in lithium-ion batteries - key to understanding the mechanisms of charge and discharge in rechargeable batteries.

EnerG2 is a company founded in 2003 that develops carbon materials at large scale to enable large-scale production of carbon materials that surpass the limitations of the naturally occurring carbons traditionally used in energy storage applications. They have carbon products for Lead Acid batteries and Supercapacitors and recently they have developed a Silicon Carbon Composite for battery anodes.

The power electronics business as applied to electric vehicles is becoming so huge that very divergent approaches become viable.

A123 Systems LLC has announced its plan to double global manufacturing capacity to 1.5 GWh within the next 3 years.

Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, can be used to create beautiful birds, frogs and other small sculptures. Now a Binghamton University engineer says the technique can be applied to building batteries, too.

IDTechEx interviews in Japan have established that supercapacitors across lithium-ion batteries in cars can increase range by 10% by permitting deep discharge, provided suitable batteries are used that can tolerate such a regime.

Jean-Yves Sánchez researches the development of calcium batteries that can compete with lithium batteries.

The new reality is that energy harvesting - creation of off-grid electricity where it is needed, using ambient energy - is now one subject from microwatts for wireless sensors to tens of kilowatts for vehicles and buildings. This is because it increasingly involves the same technologies, locations and companies. One structure, such as a remote building, will tend to use a range of energy harvesting from very low power EH for wireless sensors to very high power EH for charging those newly announced Tesla house batteries.

Skeleton Technologies plans to use the funds for ramping up production of their graphene-based ultracapacitors to meet the strong demand for electrical engineering applications.

This article shares some of the findings of the new IDTechEx Research report, Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles 2015-2030: Land, Water, Air and some of what will be discussed in the forthcoming IDTechEx webinar on 9th June.

Chemists have discovered the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries that could pave the way for development of the so-called holy grail of electrochemical energy storage.

Scientists have created a new carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies.

MIRA Ltd has announced a collaborative agreement with Fundação Parque Tecnológico Itaipu to develop a new centre of excellence for energy storage in Brazil.

A method for making elastic high-capacity batteries from wood pulp was unveiled by researchers in Sweden and the US.

Sturtevant's Micronizer jet mill is used in developing energy storage technologies, specifically supercapacitors with high charge and discharge rates.

Faradion Limited is an early stage company (est. 2011) engaged in the development of low-cost, non-aqueous sodium-ion (Na ion) rechargeable batteries for automotive, utility and consumer sectors (grid energy storage).

New technology makes cell phone batteries last up to 30 percent longer on a single charge.