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Air Battery Breakthrough
A spinoff from Arizona State University says it can develop a metal-air battery that dramatically outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market, and now it has the funding it needs to prove it. The U.S. Department of Energy last week awarded a $5.13-million research grant to ...
Battery Of The Future: New Storage Material Improves Energy Density Of Lithium-ion Battery
sciencedaily.com — Battery Of The Future: New Storage Material Improves Energy Density Of Lithium-ion Battery (more) Battery Of The Future: New Storage Material Improves ...
Metal-Air Battery Could Store 11 Times More Energy than Lithium-Ion
Metal-Air Battery Could Store 11 Times More Energy than Lithium-Ion
physorg.com — (PhysOrg.com) -- A spinoff company from Arizona State University plans to build a new battery with an energy density 11 times greater than that of lithium-ion batteries for just one-third the cost. With a $5.13 million research grant from the US ... (more) Metal-Air Battery Could Store 11 Times More Energy than ...
Biofuels Breakthrough: Making Fuel From Air With Engineered Microbes
Biofuels Breakthrough: Making Fuel From Air With Engineered Microbes
gas2.org — In what could be a major breakthrough, Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has directly produced fuel from just the plentiful carbon dioxide in the air around us using highly engineered photosynthetic microbes. Read more of this story ... (more) Biofuels Breakthrough: Making Fuel From Air With ...
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Metal-Air Battery Could Store 11 Times More Energy than Lithium-Ion
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories — ... has designed a porous electrode scaffold that prevents dendrite formation. "I'm not claiming we have it yet, but if we do succeed, it really does change the way we think about storage," Friesen said. via: Technology Review 2009 PhysOrg.com

Technology Roundup: Booming EReaders in 2010, Ionic Batteries, Batteryless Neural Sensing Chip
Next Big Future — 1. MIT Technology Review reports on the work of Arizona based Fluidic Energy who are working toward development of a metal-air battery that relies on ionic liquids, instead of an aqueous solution, as its electrolyte. ...

Betting on a Metal-Air Battery Breakthrough
Nanotechnology Now Recent News — November 8th, 2009 Betting on a Metal-Air Battery Breakthrough Abstract: A spinoff from Arizona State University says it can develop a metal-air battery that dramatically outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market, and now it has the funding it needs to prove it. The U.S. Department of Energy last week awarded a $5.13-million research grant to Scottsdale, AZ-based Fluidic Energy toward development of a metal-air battery that relies on ionic liquids, instead of an aqueous solution, as its electrolyte. Friesen is also cautious when talking about the other key ...

Ionic Liquids For Your Air Battery
New Energy and Fuel — ... John Wilkes, an ionic liquids expert who heads the Academy’s chemistry department says in a quote from Tyler Hamilton’s article in Technology Review, “They’re wonder fluids. They’re remarkable.  If you look at these liquids in a bottle, they look like water, except they’re viscous. They’re not volatile, they don’t evaporate, they’re physically stable and they conduct electricity fairly well.” ...

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ReVolt, a Swiss company, plans to sell small “button cell” batteries for hearing aids starting next year. ReVolt has developed rechargeable zinc-air batteries that can store three times the energy of lithium ion batteries, by volume, while costing only half as much. The company ...