General Registration is now open for the Beyond Lithium Ion V Conference!

To register for the conference please go to http://www.regonline.com/BLI5. Conference registration fee is $430.

As an essential part of understanding the contribution that materials science will make to accelerating progress toward scalable electrochemical energy storage systems, conference attendees are encouraged to submit poster abstracts for inclusion within a Poster Session. For more details on poster [...]

March 7 and 8, 2012 – Washington D.C.

Purpose To understand the applied research and development needs and the grand challenges for the use of flow cells as energy-storage devices.

The presentations from the workshop and eventually the workshop report can be found at http://www1.eere.energy.gov/hydrogenandfuelcells/wkshp_flow_cell_2012.html

Organizing Committee: Adam Weber, LBNL Michael Perry, UTRC Tom Zawodzinski, UTK and ORNL [...]

LBNL presents its latest results on flow batteries for grid scale storage at ITRI conference in Taiwan

LBNL presented its latest results on flow batteries for grid scale storage at the ITRI Energy Innovation Summit in Taiwan, August 2011.

LBNL to Host BLI5

The next Symposium on Electrochemical Storage for Beyond Li-Ion Batteries will be held at the CLaremont Hotel in Berkeley, CA June 5-7, 2012. The preliminary list of speakers, as well as the latest information on conference and hotel registration can be found at BLI5

Vince Battaglia wins DOE Award

Dr. Battaglia won the DOE Vehicle Technologies Program R&D Award: In recognition of Outstanding Contributions to the Energy Storage Research and Development Portfolio.

Thermal Instability of Olivine-type LiMnPO4 Cathodes

Vince Battaglia wins DOE Award

Dr. Battaglia won the DOE Vehicle Technologies Program R&D Award: In recognition of Outstanding Contributions to the Energy Storage Research and Development Portfolio.

4th Symposium on Energy Storage: Beyond Li Ion

LBNL Chaired 4th Symposium on Energy Storage: Beyond Li Ion at PNNL

June 7-9, 2011 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Battelle Auditorium 902 Battelle Blvd. Richland, WA. 99352

Updated Procedure for Making Li-ion Batteries is Now Online (December 2010)

The Battaglia Group at LBNL has updated their standard operating procedures for making and testing lithium-ion batteries. The easy-to-follow SOP is publicly available at http://bestar.lbl.gov/vbattaglia/cell-analysis-tools/.

Beyond Lithium Ion: Materials Perspectives Overview by Venkat Srinivasan, LBNL

Dr. Venkat Srinivasan, LBNL, delivered an informative overview entitled Present Research and Future Directions of the Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) Program at the “Beyond Lithium-Ion” meeting at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 7, 2010.

BATT Program Awards More Than $8 Million for Innovative Research Projects on Lithium Battery Anodes

The Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) Program has announced the funding of eight R&D projects on lithium battery anodes. BATT is funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Vehicle Technologies and is managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of its Carbon Cycle 2.0 initiative.

The FY 2010 BATT Request for [...]

Energy Storage R&D presentation at the IMLB conference

Duong Presentation Link

Prof. Newman Wins Acheson Medal

Professor John Newman has been selected to receive the Acheson Award of The Electrochemical Society. This prestigious award will be given to Professor Newman at the next meeting of the Society, to be held in Las Vegas during the week of October 10-15, 2010. Professor Newman’s greatest contribution to the “objects, purposes or activities of [...]

Funding Opportunities Update

LOI update:

As of April 1, 2010, the BATT Program received 27 full proposals for the second phase of the RFP “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Anode Materials and Structures for Use in Lithium Batteries”. These proposals are now under review.

Future RFP Schedule

Unsolicited Proposals