Energy Storage

Japanese researchers from a public-private team report an advance in Li-ion battery technology that they describe as a major breakthrough.

Lithium-air batteries have become a hot research area in recent years: They hold the promise of drastically increasing power per battery weight, which could lead, for example, to electric cars with a much greater driving range.

The Energy Harvesting SIG is in the US this week with a group of UK companies at 'Energy Harvesting and Storage USA.'

Researchers have made the first battery electrode that heals itself, opening a new and potentially commercially viable path for making the next generation of lithium ion batteries for electric cars, cell phones and other devices.

According to IDTechEx research, the market for printed and potentially printed electronics, including organics, inorganics and composites, will rise from $16.04 billion in 2013 to $76.79 billion in 2023.In this article, we will detailed the market size and forecast by application, highlight which companies are making money and why, and discuss the main go-to-market strategies.

Efforts to produce a workable design for a rechargeable lithium-air battery with respectable commercial performance have been going on for years. Problems have appeared to be insoluble.

Researchers have shown that mixing silicon microparticles with self-healing polymers helps prevent a longer-lasting battery from failing.

researchers have found that adding genetically modified viruses to the production of nanowires — wires that are about the width of a red blood cell, and which can serve as one of a battery's electrodes — could help solve some problems.

As the electric vehicle EV industry grows more than five-fold to well over $300 billion in 2024, those e-vehicles not bought primarily on up-front price will continue to dominate.

Polaris Industries is a quoted US manufacturer of small conventional and pure electric vehicles, mainly nostalgic conventional motorcycles and leisure and industrial off-road small four wheelers.

Next week the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting & USA 2013 event (www.EnergyHarvestingUSA.com ) will open in Santa Clara, CA - Nov 20-21.

Maxwell Technologies is supplying ultracapacitors to Crosspoint Kinetics to store energy and deliver power in a second-generation parallel electric hybrid drive system for small para-transit bus, shuttle bus and package delivery vehicle applications.

In a recent premium article, IDTechEx Research gave an initial assessment of the supercapacitor market globally. In the second part of this article series, IDTechEx Research offers its market projections for this fast-growing technology. As always, IDTechEx Research provides detailed reality checks on its forecasts.

At Supercapacitors USA in Santa Clara on 21 November, IDTechEx will present on this topic and as part of the INTRASME consortia will explain how the overall electric vehicle industry is being developed in Europe, what is the role of SMEs and present relevant cases of innovation by European SMEs.

Researchers have developed a flexible battery made with carbon nanotubes that could potentially power electronic devices with flexible displays.

Advances in flexible and stretchable electronics have prompted researchers to explore ways to create stretchable supercapacitors — robust energy storage devices — to power these and other devices.