lithium-ion batteries

For several different applications ranging from automobiles to portable electronics, lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery assembles have become an ideal energy storage option, as these high energy density battery cells are lightweight and cost effective options as compared to other battery technology and are ...

American Manganese Inc. Advances Its Intellectual Property Program Developing New IP For Streamlining The Existing Lithium-ion Battery Recycling ... FSE: 2AM), is pleased to announce that the Company has been progressively advancing technology for recycling lithium-ion batteries that will further ...

Lithium-ion batteries are essential to today's technology and can be found in nearly every portable device, as well as electric vehicles. Smartphones, laptops, tablets, cordless power tools, and grid-energy storage are just a few examples that are powered by the excellent battery, which have been a ...

Researchers working at the American Argonne National Laboratory have been able to shed more light on the chemical processes active in lithium batteries which determine the cell's durability and stability. The relevant reactions occur in a microscopically thin layer called the 'solid-electrolyte interphase' or ...

A lithium-ion battery can swell when a malfunction causes gas to build up over time. “A small amount of gas is produced during the cycling of lithium-ion batteries, but normally it's not large enough to cause any significant swelling,” says K.M. Abraham, one of the pioneers of the Li-ion battery and a professor ...

OLD lithium-ion batteries left on the passenger seat caused a fire in a vehicle at the parking lot of the Ministry of Education at the Old Airport, Berakas on Tuesday. Overwhelming solar heat is believed to have ignited the batteries. A viral message on social media had claimed the fire was caused when eye ...

The new aqueous zinc battery presented in this work could be the answer to the call for safe battery chemistry while still maintaining the comparable or even higher energy densities of conventional lithium-ion batteries. "Water-based batteries could be crucial to preventing fires in electronics, but their energy ...

Back to the news at hand … a press release provides more: “Canada has awarded $3.4 million to Springpower International (SPI) of Mississauga, Ontario, which has developed a lower cost and environmentally friendly process for the production of lithium ion batteries. The award was 1 of 5 awards totalling ...

Cobalt is a critical component in the cathodes for lithium-ion batteries because it provides the physical structure they need to operate properly. ... “We've opened up a new chemical space for battery technology,” says Gerbrand Ceder, a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at ...

US researchers have made a lithium-ion battery that uses manganese as the cathode material instead of traditional cobalt or nickel. The work could offer a cheap and abundant alternative to these increasingly expensive and limited resources, providing a way to meet the rapidly growing demand for ...

However, trade expert John Smirnow has confirmed to pv magazine that this excludes rechargeable lithium-ion batteries such as are used in electric vehicles and energy storage to accompany solar PV. There are other items on the list that include other battery technologies, however GTM Research says ...

Schneider Electric believes part of the answer lies in lithium-ion (Li-Ion) battery technology. This technology provides longer lifespans, more compact batteries, better performance, and lower maintenance. You may be used to valve-regulated lead-acid (VRLA) batteries, which need to be replaced more ...

Magnesium (Mg) batteries theoretically contain almost twice as much energy per volume as lithium-ion batteries. But previous research encountered an obstacle: chemical reactions of the conventional carbonate electrolyte created a barrier on the surface of magnesium that prevented the battery from ...

What would you think about a battery that sports five times the capacity of the average lithium-ion one? And then what if this battery was cheaper, and even more environmentally friendly? This is not a hypothetical battery—it exists—and now researchers are working to make it suitable for wide adoption.

What would you think about a battery that sports five times the capacity of the average lithium-ion one? And then what if this batter was cheaper, and even more environmentally friendly? This is not a hypothetical battery—it exists—and now researchers are working to make it suitable for wide adoption.

HONOLULU (KHON2) - Honolulu Fire Department investigators say a house fire in Palolo on Saturday was started by a lithium ion battery failure. ... "If the battery feels hot - not warm - because almost all batteries get warm, let that set off an alarm in your mind that something might be wrong and pay close ...

At a recent summit held by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a researcher for Boeing said that an energy density of 500 watt-hours per kilogram (Wh/kg) would be the minimum needed to fly a very small plane on batteries. Currently, a 18,650 lithium-ion battery cell has an energy ...

"This first demonstration of a true lithium-air battery is an important step toward what we call 'beyond lithium-ion' batteries, but we have more work to do in order to commercialize it." Lithium-air batteries -- believed to be able to hold up to five times more energy than the lithium-ion batteries that power our ...

The fact that neutrons are not easily absorbed by the metal battery housing makes them ideal for analyzing batteries. Thus, Bosch employees, in collaboration with scientists from the TU Munich and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, investigated the filling process at the neutron imaging and ...

The main impediment to mass electric-car adoption is price, and the driving force behind that is the cost of lithium-ion battery cells. The performance of those cells improves at about 7 percent a year, give or take: Either the same cell costs 7 percent less after a year, or a carmaker gets 7 percent more energy ...

“These new-generation batteries will provide performance, cost and safety advantages compared to current lithium-ion products,” promised the battery maker. Rory McCarthy, a London-based senior energy storage analyst with GTM Research, said it will not be easy to challenge Asia's dominance in ...

The process takes degraded particles from the cathodes found in a used lithium-ion battery. The particles are then pressurized in a hot, alkaline solution that contains lithium salt. Later, the particles go through a short heat-treating process called “annealing” in which temperatures reach more than 1,400 ...

Fortunately, the quick-thinking crew members smelled smoke just before the aircraft took off -- halting the flight and triggering a search of the cargo bay, which quickly revealed an exploded lithium-ion battery in a toiletry bag. While the FAA does not prohibit lithium-ion batteries, most major airlines have ...

"This could have been serious," says John Cox, a veteran pilot and airline safety consultant with special expertise on lithium-ion batteries in aviation. "Any time a lithium battery overheats the potential for fire and it spreading is very real. If the fire burned through the cargo hold lining, it could have threatened ...

The leader of the team that developed the battery, Professor John Andrews, says that with the improvements made possible by graphene, the proton battery could become a real challenger for lithium-ion batteries and advance efforts for energy storage solutions that pave the way for a renewable energy ...

The implications of involving a three-dimensional layer of silicone, the scientists say, are relevant for both lithium-ion and lithium-air batteries, as well as for other metal-anode-based batteries. "Almost all metals used as battery anodes tend to develop dendrites," says University's professor of School for ...

The big advantage with proton batteries compared to fuel cells is efficiency. The latter must produce hydrogen gas then split it back into protons, which creates losses. But a proton battery never produces hydrogen gas, so the energy efficiency is comparable to lithium-ion batteries. And even though the ...

On Friday, DNV GL announced a joint partnership to study the safe use of lithium-ion batteries in shipping. The class society's partners in the effort include flag states, research institutions, battery and propulsion suppliers, fire system manufacturers, shipowners, vessel operators and yards. DNV GL says that ...

The rechargeable battery is environmentally friendly, and has the potential, with further development, to store more energy than currently-available lithium ion batteries. Potential applications for the proton battery include household storage of electricity from solar photovoltaic panels, as done currently by the ...

An electrical fire broke out early Wednesday, March 7, 2018, at Quallion, 12744 San Fernando Road in Sylmar. The company makes lithium ion battery systems for medical, space and defense applications. (Google Street View). SYLMAR — An electrical fire broke out Wednesday morning at a lithium ion ...

Ahead of his talk at Advanced Design & Manufacturing Cleveland, Franks sat down with Design News to discuss the future of battery testing and inspection and how the global market for batteries is changing. Right now most investment is going into lithium-ion. Companies are looking to improve on the ...

The result is a device that can have direct contact with all the key parts of the battery and withstand electrical, chemical and mechanical stress inflicted during the batteries operation while still enabling precise temperature and potential readings.” During testing on commercially available 18650 lithium-ion ...

A new precise and direct test of the internal temperatures of lithium-ion batteries and their electrode potential shows that the batteries can be safely charged ... This led manufacturers to passing very conservative limits on maximum charging speed or intensity to ensure the battery is not damaged or suffering ...

Automated container transporters (AGV) at at HHLA Container Terminal Alternwerder (CTA) will be powered by lithium-ion batteries in the future, as they ... A lithium-ion battery-powered AGV prototype has been in operation at the CTA since autumn 2016 and was successfully tested together with an electric ...

University of Maryland researchers at the A. James Clark School of Engineering created a new water-based zinc battery that uses an aqueous electrolyte instead of the flammable substance in lithium-ion batteries. But to keep the batteries powerful and long-lasting the research team added metallic zinc and ...

China is hoping to become the Detroit of the battery-powered electric-vehicle industry. Sales of EVs are expected to reach 1 million this year alone, and the government has big plans for expansion. But this welcome trend comes with a perplexing side effect: China is now using up more lithium-ion batteries ...

The cathodes in the lithium-ion batteries typically used in electric vehicles, or EVs, are made of metal oxides that contain cobalt, a metal found in finite supplies and concentrated in one of the globe's more ... The process takes degraded particles from the cathodes found in a used lithium-ion battery.