Energy Storage

Kunshan Printed Electronics Ltd a new company located in Suzhou near Shanghai has developed a printed paper battery with a voltage of 1.5 volts/cell that can be used in battery assisted passive RFID tags with or without micro sensors.

Ates is devel­oping a next-​​generation lithium-​​ion battery—a lithium rich ver­sion of the bat­teries that today power every­thing from cell phones to elec­tric vehi­cles

The industry's smallest and most accurate Li-Ion battery fuel gauge integrated circuitboosts battery run-time in portable medical devices.

Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) developed a new method to massively synthesize enhanced yet affordable materials for supercapacitors - developing an electric vehicle with high power will become a realization not just a dream.

Korean Researchers have developed a new method to massively synthesize enhanced yet affordable materials for supercapacitors.

SAFT Batteries has products in a broad diverse portfolio of applications and markets, with the exception of cars and consumer products. The company's main business is in batteries, and not supercapacitors. However they have acquired a licence from ESMA/Elton to develop nickel supercapacitors based on aqueous electrolytes.

An international research team has developed a novel way to turn small fibres into powerful batteries with ultrafast charge and discharge rates.

The development of solid-type electrolytes, safe from explosion caused by high temperature and overcharge, is urgently needed to replace the liquid electrolytes. The solid electrolyte enables batteries to be safer as well as the use of higher energy electrode materials.

A sliver of wood coated with tin could make a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmentally friendly battery.

3D printing can now be used to print lithium-ion microbatteries the size of a grain of sand.

Flexible portable electronics, in order to retain their versatility would benefit from harvesters and batteries or supercapacitors on plastic substrates.

In 2013 the market size for gold ink for electronic and electrical applications is less than $1 million - used mainly for academic work and some early stage work in healthcare products. However, a new report from IDTechEx Research titled New Opportunities for Gold: Conductive Inks for the Electronics Industry 2013-2019 finds that with demand from medical applications, edge connectors and interfaces with organic materials such as sensors the market will growth to $50 million in 2018, in the "most likely" scenario.

Researchers at Rice University have come up with a new way to boost the efficiency of the ubiquitous lithium ion (LI) battery by employing ribbons of graphene that start as carbon nanotubes.

Questions arise as to how much supercapacitors can improve if organisations more like NASA took over. After all, if supercapacitors can replace many batteries when, as today, they store one tenth of their energy, what will happen in the marketplace if they approach the theoretical ten times the lithium-ion battery figure while acting as a near-perfect "battery"?

After 10,000 complete charging and discharging cycles with a complete charge and discharge cycle per hour (2 C), the lithium batteries still have more than 85 % of the initial capacity.

2008 to 2010 saw huge enthusiasm and interest in the development of small energy harvesters.

Scientists have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion technologies that power today's electronics.

Three years ago, the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) was asked to demonstrate the durability of lead-carbon batteries in the high-rate, partial state-of-charge operation of a hybrid electric vehicle.