News about Battery Technology

Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have developed and successfully lab-tested a novel titanium-air battery in cooperation with researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. This is the first time that experimental results of such a battery have been published in which titanium is used as an active material. The metal is of interest as an electricity storage material because each atom can donate up to four electrons for charge transfer, while at the same time...

Aluminium-ion batteries are seen as a promising alternative to conventional batteries that use scarce and difficult-to-recycle raw materials such as lithium. This is because aluminium is one of the most common elements in the Earth’s crust, is easier to recycle, and is also safer and less expensive than lithium. However, the development of such aluminium-ion batteries is still in its infancy, as suitable electrode materials that provide sufficient storage capacity are still lacking. A...

Recover up to 70 percent of lithium from battery waste without the need for corrosive chemicals, high temperatures, or prior sorting of materials: This is made possible by a recycling method developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) that combines mechanical processes and chemical reactions. The method allows cost-effective, energy-efficient, and environmentally compatible recycling of a wide variety of lithium-ion batteries. The researchers report in the journal Nature...

Who is Cylib and what does Cylib do – in an interview, Gideon Schwich, Co-founder | COO, answers all questions of the chemie.de editorial team. Many thanks for this. On the one hand, we are the three founders: Lilian, Paul and Gideon. But above all, we now have a very strong team from a wide range of areas. We currently have 27 people in our team from various fields. Chemists, process engineers, metallurgists, business economists and engineers. The tendency is strongly increasing. We...

Solid-state Lithium-Sulfur batteries offer the potential for much higher energy densities and increased safety, compared to conventional lithium-ion batteries. However, the performance of solid-state batteries is currently lacking, with slow charging and discharging being one of the primary causes. Now, a new study from HZB shows that sluggish lithium ion transport within a composite cathode is the cause of this slow charging and discharging.

Umicore has inaugurated one of the world‘s largest and most advanced solid-state battery material prototyping facilities in Olen, Belgium, which will expand and accelerate its innovation and technology development in this domain. Solid state batteries are expected to propel electric mobility and will complement Umicore’s world leading portfolio of battery materials technologies.