Tag: lithium ion battery

Researchers from Florida State University and Cornell University found that batteries constructed out of inexpensive and safe components can deliver three to four times the punch of batteries made with state-of-the-art lithium-ion technology. The researchers’ work is published in Nature Communications. A. Nijamudheen, a postdoctoral researcher at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, and Snehashis Choudhury, a doctoral student at Cornell University, along with faculty members

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BMZ Holding GmbH plans to join forces with KION Group AG, a provider of intralogistics solutions, to form a lithium-ion battery joint venture. The joint venture will be under the name of KION Battery Systems GmbH. This joint venture will produce lithium-ion batteries for industrial trucks in the EMEA region.  Both BMZ and KION boast of having world-leading know-how in lithium-ion technology. 

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Lithium batteries are currently the dominant rechargeable battery in the market due to their relatively high energy density and long cycle life. However, the conventional heavy and bulky lithium battery is difficult to use in wearable devices. Researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have created a highly flexible, high-energy textile lithium battery. (See image above of Professor Zheng Zijian holding

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Today’s data centers are more complex than ever before, but one thing has remained unchanged over the past three decades – batteries are a critical but imperfect part of the power chain. Data centers have long been at the mercy of decades-old valve-regulated lead acid (VRLA) batteries that get the job done just well enough to keep data center managers

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German battery maker Varta has sealed a research agreement to lay the groundwork for mass production of lithium-ion battery cells for electric cars as it seeks to take on Asian leaders in the sector. Varta, which currently specializes in batteries for hearing aids and large storage systems for solar energy, has agreed a cooperation deal with Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute, a

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•A 200-room Premier Inn in Edinburgh is trialing the 100-kilowatt battery.•The battery weighs around 5 metric tons and takes two hours to fully charge up. A hotel in Scotland has started to use a lithium-ion battery to help power its operations. The Edinburgh Park hotel, a 200-room Premier Inn in Edinburgh, is trialing the 100-kilowatt battery with the aim of

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Summary: Conventional lithium ion batteries have reached performance limits. Scientists have now developed a new nanostructured anode material for lithium ion batteries, which extends the capacity and cycle life of the batteries. Based on a mesoporous mixed metal oxide in combination with graphene, the material could provide a new approach how to make better use of batteries in large devices

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