$8 Million funds for lithium battery anode research
9 August 2010The Batteries of Advanced Transportation Technologies Program (BATT) is a part of carbon Cycle 2.0 Initiative and is funded by the DOE’s Office of vehicle Technologies, has recently announced funding of 8 Research projects on lithium battery anodes. The application of the developed batteries out of this research proposal will include electric vehicles and plug-in-hybrid electric vehicles.
The award as been granted to the two national laboratories, five universities and one private non-profit research institute with a total fund of $8.54 million which will be disbursed over next four years. The list of these research facilities are given below.
1.      Argonne national Laboratory: The researchers will design high surface area metal as substrate that will be superior to conventional laminated electrodes.
2.      Binghamton University: The researchers at Binghamton University will synthesize nano metal based anodes with special focus on nano-tin and thus the newly developed anodes will have much higher volumetric energy densities than the current carbon anodes.
3.      Drexel University: Researchers will explore the combination of materials to enhance the lithium uptake and the overall capacity.
4.      National Renewable Energy Laboratory and University of Colorado: The researchers will use atomic layer deposition and molecular layer deposition techniques for coating silicone anode and organic coatings for producing high capacity anodes.
5.      Pennsylvania State University:  Researchers at Pennsylvania State University will synthesize anodes having specific capacity more than 1500mAh/g.
6.      Southwest Research Institute: The Researchers at SWRI will synthesize the characterize silicon clatharates for anode applications.
7.      Stanford University: The researchers at SU will explore porous electrode that can bind silicon nanoparticles. These materials should be low cost and at the same time should be synthesized in high volume.
8.      University of Pittsburg: Researchers at University of Pittsburg will synthesize amorphous silicon and lithium-silicon alloy/ carbon-carbon hetrostructures. The work will also include exploring thermoplastic resin superior than the current poly-vinyl fluoride.
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