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Engineers Harness Sodium Hydroxide for Sustainable Energy Storage

A Denmark-based firm, Hyme Energy, has developed a novel energy storage system that uses a type of salt known as sodium hydroxide, known to have exceptional heat storage...

March 30, 2023

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Gautamee Hazarika

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Researchers Find Solution to Manage Load in Solar PV & Storage Systems

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have developed a solution that combines power from renewable sources with electricity from the...

March 10, 2023

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Gautamee Hazarika

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Disordered Multi-Metals in Electrolyte Can Boost Battery Performance

Solid-state batteries with a disordered arrangement of metals in electrolytes enhance the performance of the battery by increasing the flow of ions which create an...

February 28, 2023

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Gourav Mishra

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Energy Storage

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New Lithium-Air Battery Performs Four Times Better than Lithium-Ion

Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a lithium-air battery...

February 27, 2023

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Gautamee Hazarika

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Energy Storage

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Researchers Use Compression to Raise Lithium Cell Cycle Life by 40%

Researchers at the ARC Training Centre for Future Energy Storage Technologies (storEnergy) found that the suppression of the lithium metal creep (Li-creep) under...

January 18, 2023

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Gourav Mishra

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Energy Storage

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Researchers Cut Cell Size to Bring Down Cost of Flow Batteries

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the U.S. have developed a compact flow battery cell configuration that reduces the size of the cell by 75% and...

January 17, 2023

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Gautamee Hazarika

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Energy Storage

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Researchers Improve Stability of Thin Perovskite Films Using New Solvent

Researchers claimed to have developed improved thin perovskite films with reduced defects and better stability under higher temperatures by introducing dimethylammonium...

December 8, 2022

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Gourav Mishra

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Solar

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Swiss Researchers Announce Record Efficiency of 22.2% for Flexible CIGS Solar Cells

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratory for Material Science and Technology have claimed to have achieved an efficiency of 22.2% for CIGS (composite of copper,...

October 14, 2022

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Gautamee Hazarika

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Solar

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Technology
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Machine Learning Algorithm Developed to Study EV Battery Charging Time, Performance

Researchers from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom claimed to have developed a machine learning (ML) algorithm that can help reduce the charging times of...

October 4, 2022

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Gourav Mishra

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Energy Storage

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Technology
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Researchers in Hong Kong Achieve Breakthrough in Post Lithium-Ion Battery Tech

A team of researchers led by Professor Dennis Leung from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have recently discovered a new...

September 26, 2022

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Gautamee Hazarika

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Energy Storage

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A 10 kWh Battery Storage System Can Fully Meet Backup Needs of Three-Day Outage in the US

If heating and cooling loads are excluded from backup, small behind-the-meter Solar Photovoltaic plus Energy Storage Systems (PVESS) with just 10 kWh of storage can...

September 30, 2022

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Arjun Joshi

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Energy Storage

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Inexpensive Aluminium-Sulfur Batteries Could Outperform Lithium-ion: MIT Research

A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new type of battery made from abundant and cheaper materials such as aluminum and sulfur. Lithium-ion...

August 26, 2022

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Vijayalakshmi Sridhar

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Energy Storage

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Technology
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Tokyo University Research Demonstrates Efficacy of Magnesium Ion-Based Batteries

Researchers from Japan have developed a novel Mg2+ (magnesium ions) conductor with practically applicable superconductivity, which overcomes their poor conductivity in...

August 10, 2022

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Vijayalakshmi Sridhar

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Energy Storage

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Technology
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Finland-Based Stora Enso and Northvolt to Produce Batteries Using Renewable Wood

Taking a step further to maintain sustainability in battery production, Finland-based forest products manufacturer Stora Enso and lithium-ion battery producer Northvolt...

July 25, 2022

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Gourav Mishra

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Ola to Set up $500 Million Battery Innovation Center in Bengaluru

Bengaluru-based electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Ola Electric announced that it will invest $500 million in setting up a state-of-the-art Battery Innovation Center...

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