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Titan Takes Fluoride from Taps and Toothpaste to Batteries
In today’s technology landscape, companies are continually making improvements to electronic devices. Bigger screens, better cameras, and smarter systems are just some of the improvements these companies promise to consumers with each product upgrade. But one question remains: where are the long-lasting batteries? A collaboration of researchers recently made a discovery that might hold the answer […]
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Honda RI, Caltech & JPL Develop Safer Flouride-Based Batteries for EVs
Scientists from Honda Research Institute have collaborated with researchers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop a new battery chemistry that enables the use of materials with higher energy density and a more favorable environmental footprint than current battery technologies. The collective team of scientists co-authored a new paper […]
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New battery concept based on fluoride ions may increase battery lifespans
Imagine not having to charge your phone or laptop for weeks. That is the dream of researchers looking into alternative batteries that go beyond the current lithium-ion versions popular today. Now, in a new study appearing in the journal Science, chemists at several institutions, including Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by […]
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Fluorinated electrolytes provide better performance when lithium ion batteries are pushed to the limit.
Lithium ion batteries are here to stay. Yet there are aspects of these electrochemical storage devices that can be improved. One such area is the electrolyte. Neville Pavri, research chemist at Halocarbon Products Corp., will give a talk at The Battery Show in Novi, MI on September 12 titled, “Fluorinated Materials to Help Improve Performance […]
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Tinci Materials to Use NEV Battery By-Products for Drugs, Pesticides
A unit of Tinci Materials Technology will seek uses for by-products that form while refining materials for new energy vehicles’ batteries. Jimute New Materials will construct production lines for by-products, such as photoinitiators, methyl acetate, trifluoroacetic acid, and sulfuryl fluoride, which appear while processing lithium hexafluorophosphate, the Guangzhou-based chemical manufacturer said in a statement yesterday. […]
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Science: Electric car batteries souped-up with fluorinated electrolytes for longer-range driving [Report]
The success of electric car batteries depends on the miles that can be driven on a single charge, but the current crop of lithium-ion batteries are reaching their natural limit of how much charge can be packed into any given space, keeping drivers on a short tether. Now, researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD), […]
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Iron trifluoride could make better electric-car batteries
Adding oxygen and cobalt to the cathode prevents lithium from breaking chemical bonds Researchers at the University of Maryland, in conjunction with Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new battery cathode material that they say could triple the energy density of lithium-ion batteries. The new material is an engineered variety of iron trifluoride, a well-known […]
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New modified iron trifluoride intercalation-conversion cathode could triple energy density
A collaboration led by scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD), the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the US Army Research Lab have developed and studied a new cathode material—a modified and engineered form of iron trifluoride (FeF3)—that could triple the energy density of lithium-ion battery electrodes. Their open-access paper is […]
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Battery’s hidden layer revealed
The reaction mechanism for converting hydrogen fluoride (HF) impurity from the electrolyte into lithium fluoride (LiF) in the solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) with release of hydrogen gas (H2). The SEI layer is shown on a substrate of gold (Au) atoms, which serves as a simplified model system. Scientists determined this mechanism using advanced computational methods (density […]
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New Studies on Disordered Cathodes May Provide Much-Needed Jolt to Lithium Batteries
Today’s lithium-ion battery was invented so long ago, there are not many more efficiencies to wring out of it. Now researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) report major progress in cathodes made with so-called “disordered” materials, a promising new type of lithium battery. In a pair of papers published […]
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