Batteries & Other Energy Storage Devices

June 2022

Seokheun “Sean” Choi has developed a “plug-and-play” biobattery that can last for weeks at a time and has the ability to be stacked to improve output voltage and current, depending on how the cells are arranged.

'Plug-and-Play' Biobatteries Generate Power for Weeks

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

One of the most challenging things about implementing the Internet of Things (IoT) is powering the sensors. We need measurements of almost every metric in a system so that the processing elements can understand what is happening and provide the most accurate output. That means that there will be small sensors

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06/29/2022

The BITE5 Battery Tester

Battery Tester Tests Lead Acid Batteries, NiCD Batteries, and Lithium-Ion Batteries to 200Vdc

Megger now offers a battery tester that can assess lead acid batteries, NiCD batteries, and lithium-ion batteries up to 200Vdc. The BITE5 is ideal for use in transmission and distribution substations, solar, UPS maintenance, telecom and data center applications. Test and measurement This new handheld tester ca

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06/28/2022

Wei Lu, a U-M professor of mechanical engineering cycling batteries in the Lu Lab at the George G. Brown Laboratories building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, May 31, 2022.

New Approach Reduces EV Battery Testing Time by 75%

Testing the longevity of new electric vehicle battery designs could be four times faster with a streamlined approach, researchers at the University of Michigan have shown. Their optimization framework could drastically reduce the cost of assessing how battery configurations will perform over the long

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06/27/2022

Powercast and InPlay have created a platform for designing battery-free, maintenance-free, IoT sensor systems that can be powered over long distances up to 120 feet.

Powercast & InPlay Team on Battery-free BLE Sensor Beacon Powered over 120 Feet

Sensors Converge – Powercast Corporation and InPlay, inventor of the programming-free, ultra-low-cost and low-power Bluetooth sensor NanoBeacon system-on-chip (SoC) technology, have created a platform for designing battery-free, maintenance-free, long-range wireless IoT sensor systems that de

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06/27/2022

This review focuses on recent progress of the working principles, device architectures, and performances of various closed-type and open-type photo-enhanced rechargeable metal batteries, exploring their challenges and future perspectives.

Solving the Solar Energy Storage Problem with Rechargeable Batteries that can Convert and Store Energy at Once

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY PRESS

As the climate crisis looms, scientists are racing to find solutions to common clean energy problems, including solar energy storage. Solar energy is one of the best renewable resources we have, but it has challenges that prevent it from being widely adopted and replacing conventional energy sources. Because so

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06/24/2022

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Study Helps Overcome the Barriers to Lithium-Metal Adoption

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

Researchers around the world are looking at different battery chemistries, trying to find a battery that can improve on the lithium-ion ones that we use today. A better battery would offer faster charging, higher capacity, a longer lifespan and be safer. Probably the new battery chemistry that offers the

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06/22/2022

Using the bumpy material in Li-ion batteries has the potential to open up the possibility of using them at extremely low temperatures.

Li-ion Batteries Come in from the Cold

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

One of the main drawbacks of Lithium ion batteries is that their storage capability is diminished in colder temperatures. Its a phenomenon that happens with many different types of battery, but Li-ion batteries are the currently the most widely used type of battery, and the applications in which Li-

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06/14/2022

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Figure 1. Many intelligent systems are working together within the battery management system, and they all need to be connected.

Designing Interconnects for EV Battery Management Systems

Gijs Werner, Director of Distribution & Marketing FCI Basics BU, Amphenol Communications Solutions

Electric vehicles are becoming the new norm on the road—as of Q1 2021, Americans bought more electric vehicles than ever before, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Consumers purchased more than 122,000 electric vehicles in March 2021 alone, making electric vehicles 7.6 percent of the market sh

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06/07/2022

EV Charging is all about location

EV Charging – It’s All in the Location

Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

This week brought more worrying news about the climate. A new report from the World Meteorological Organization estimates that we now have a 48% chance of global average temperatures temporarily rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius beyond pre-industrial levels within five years. 1.5 degrees Celsius is no

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06/07/2022

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Figure 1: Windings of a three-phase brushless DC motor are driven in a set sequence

BLDC Motors Put the Power in Present Day Power Tools

Jose Quinones, Senior Applications Engineer, Programmable Power Management, Qorvo

The first idea that electricity could be used to produce rotary motion originates in the 1740s in experiments by a Scottish Benedictine monk, Andrew Gordon. It took nearly another century before a practical battery-operated version appeared in 1834 and then, through the work of Tesla and others, the ground wa

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06/01/2022