Nickel-based electrode material opens doors to cobalt-free batteries
An international team of researchers has developed a nickel-based electrode material that opens new avenues to cobalt-free batteries for electric vehicles.
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Scientists develop non-flammable electrolyte for lithium-metal batteries
Using computational science, researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a fluorine-substituted high-voltage stable chloride-based solid-state electrolyte.
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Stellantis to enter JV with Orano to recycle electric car batteries
Mining News Pro - Franco-Italian automaker Stellantis said on Tuesday it planned a joint venture with French nuclear fuels firm Orano to recycle used electric vehicle batteries and scrap materials from its gigafactories in Europe and North America.
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Synthetic graphite for EV batteries: Can the West crack China’s code?
Mining News Pro - New investments in the United States and Europe aim to challenge China’s stranglehold on a key ingredient used in most electric vehicle batteries – graphite – but industry experts said that will be an uphill battle.
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Dead EV batteries turn to gold with US incentives
Mining News Pro - A little-publicized clause in the US Inflation Reduction Act has companies scrambling to recycle electric vehicle batteries in North America, putting the region at the forefront of a global race to undermine China’s dominance of the field.
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Fluorine protects both teeth and lithium batteries against decay
Mining News Pro - Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a fluorine electrolyte that could protect the next generation of lithium metal batteries against performance decline.
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EV metals will come from dead batteries at new US plant
Mining News Pro - A new US plant will soon offer a solution for tight supplies of critical metals: Pull them out of dead batteries in a process that produces fewer emissions than competitors.
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Apple to use only recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025
Mining News Pro - Apple Inc said on Thursday it would use only recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025 as a part of its efforts to make all its products carbon neutral by the end of the decade.
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Water-based batteries store more energy than previously thought
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Texas A&M University discovered that water-based battery electrodes store more energy than previously thought.
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New tech may help lithium-ion batteries last for nine years
Mining News Pro - Engineers at Australia’s RMIT University are proposing the idea of incorporating a 2D material into lithium-ion batteries to extend their lifetime up to three times longer than today’s technology, that is, to about nine years.
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Mexico to start producing lithium batteries in late 2023
Mining News Pro - President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced last month a $2.5 billion plan to turn parts of the border region with the US into a clean energy hub, home to solar and wind plants as well as electric vehicle factories.
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Next-gen electrolytes may give lithium metal batteries a boost
Mining News Pro - The Coulombic efficiency, also called the current efficiency, describes the efficiency by which electrons are transferred within the battery. This means that a battery with high Coulombic efficiency has a longer battery cycle life.
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New environmentally friendly method to extract metals from Li-ion batteries launched in Canada
Mining News Pro - Engineers at the University of Toronto are proposing a new, more sustainable method to mine lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese from lithium-ion batteries that have reached the end of their lives.
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Dendrite formation in Li-metal batteries successfully tackled
Mining News Pro - Researchers at the Next-Generation Battery Research Center of Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) developed a 1D Li-confinable porous carbon structure with a hollow core, and a small number of gold nanoparticles with Li affinity inside the core, to be used in lithium-metal batteries to avoid dendrite formation.
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Could Coal Waste Be Used to Make Sustainable Batteries?
Mining News Pro - Acid mine drainage has long been a scourge in Appalachia. Recent research suggests that we may be able to simultaneously clean up the pollution and extract the minerals and elements needed to power green technologies.
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The next big battery material squeeze is old batteries
Mining News Pro - A global rush into battery recycling is good news for automakers worried about future raw material supplies. But the wave of new factories poses a big risk for the recycling industry itself: there’s nowhere near enough scrap yet to feed them all.
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Researchers figure out how to improve Li-ion batteries’ lifespan
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology have developed a method to strengthen lithium-ion batteries’ anodes, making them more resilient to volume changes.
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Researchers solve issues hindering silicon use in lithium-ion batteries
Mining News Pro - Researchers at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) are proposing a solution to some of the issues plaguing silicon micron-particles (SiMP), which hinder their use in lithium-ion batteries.
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Common table sugar key to improving aqueous zinc batteries’ safety features
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Tsinghua University are proposing the idea of chemically modifying common table sugar to stabilize the zinc-ion environment in aqueous zinc batteries and improve the devices’ safety features.
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Refining Lithium from Batteries are Hard but Makes you Richer
Mining News Pro - The lithium-ion batteries in today’s electric vehicles outperform older lead-acid batteries by almost every measure, except one. Lead-acid batteries are still the single-most recycled product in the world.
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Microwaves efficiently extract manganese, zinc from spent batteries
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Japan’s Ritsumeikan University are proposing the idea of a distributed recycling system that uses microwave heating for extracting metals from old alkaline batteries.
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Volkswagen looking at making its own batteries in North America
Mining News Pro - Volkswagen AG is considering setting up an in-house battery cell manufacturing operation in North America, similar to what it’s doing in Germany.
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Ford-backed startup targets EV alternatives to lithium-ion batteries
Mining News Pro - Solid Power Inc., the battery startup that went public in a reverse merger last year, has begun operating a new pilot line, putting it on pace to deliver sample cells to automotive partners by year-end.
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Researchers demonstrate feasibility of using less cobalt, nickel in Li-ion batteries
Mining News Pro - Researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University have demonstrated the feasibility of synthesizing electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries using inexpensive elements.
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Organic lithium-ion batteries one step closer to becoming reality
Mining News Pro - A recent discovery by researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University and the University of California, Los Angeles has moved the needle one step closer to realizing metal-free, high-energy, and inexpensive batteries by using a small organic molecule, croconic acid.
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