Advancing Battery Technology for Modern Innovations
WEBMay 18, 2021 · Today, state-of-the-art primary battery technology is based on lithium metal, thionyl chloride (Li-SOCl2), and manganese oxide (Li-MnO2). They are suitable for long-term applications of five to twenty years, including metering, electronic toll collection, tracking, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The leading chemistry for rechargeable ...
Safer and Powerful Solid-State Batteries for Electric Vehicles - ASME
WEBFeb 23, 2022 · The battery is a silicon all-solid-state battery that is safe, long-lasting, and energy-dense. In another recent development, researchers from Brown University have developed a new material for use in solid-state batteries that is derived from trees. The solid ion conductor combines copper with cellulose nanofibrils—polymer tubes derived from ...
Liquid Metal Batteries May Revolutionize Energy Storage - ASME
WEBJun 14, 2017 · The liquid-metal battery is an innovative approach to solving grid-scale electricity storage problems. Its capabilities allow improved integration of renewable resources into the power grid. In addition, the battery will hopefully improve the overall reliability of an aging grid and offset the need to build additional transmission, generation ...
New Iron Flow Battery Promises Safe, Scalable Energy Storage
WEBJul 16, 2024 · Improvement in Battery Technology: Breakthrough Could Make for Long-Range EVs “The new iron flow battery is a good candidate for longer duration batteries, with discharge over 10-20 hours,” he said. “And we have improved on this old design because of a fundamental understanding of both the battery and the material design.
A Solid Foundation for Battery Technology - The American Society …
WEBAug 29, 2023 · Solid-state batteries (SSBs), where all components including traditional liquid electrolytes are solids, constitute a promising alternative to the lithium-ion in use today. “Solid-state batteries hold many unique properties when compared to traditional Li-ion batteries and alternative chemistries,” said Alex Yu, CTO and co-founder of ...
Making the Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Batteries Safer, Longer
WEBOct 24, 2018 · Samsung Advanced Institute of Technologyin 2017 announced a new battery material called “graphene ball” that enables a 45 percent increase in capacity, and a charging speed that is five times faster than standard lithium-ion batteries. A battery based on the graphene ball material requires only 12 minutes to fully charge, according to ...
UAVs are improving in autonomy, flight time and more. - ASME
WEBMay 18, 2023 · Five Ways Drone Technology is Improving. Drone improvements include advances in autonomous flight, composite materials, next-generation batteries, extended flight times, and payload capacities. Unmanned aerial vehicles—or drones—are pushing boundaries everywhere from construction sites to combat. The …
Tritium Battery Gets NASA’s Attention - The American Society of ...
WEBNov 6, 2023 · Currently, City Labs is in the process of moving beyond its P100 series NanoTritium Battery toward developing the P200 Series NanoTritium battery for commercial use. The P200 will utilize tritium technology to produce a larger output that can be used for higher-power devices. This scaling-up of its betavoltaic batteries will allow for an ...
Future Battery for the Electric Car - ASME
WEBMay 1, 2013 · GM’s chief technology officer,Jon Lauckner, has said recently that increased and more efficient manufacturing is not likely to reduce the price or increase the capacity of lithium ion batteries. To see a change, we’ll need a sea change. That’s likely to come in the form of the lithium sulfur battery. This chemistry has long been poised to ...
Reusing discarded EV batteries to store wind & solar power - ASME
WEBOct 27, 2022 · Their energy storage facility in Lancaster, California, uses electric vehicle battery packs to store energy from solar panels and sell it to the grid when it’s needed most. The facility has over 1,000 batteries with a current storage capacity of 20 megawatt-hours, and continues to expand. At the moment, those batteries come from Nissan Leafs ...