The R&D World Index (RDWI) for the week ending October 22, 2021, closed at 5,391.27 for the 25 companies in the R&D World Index. The Index was down -1.19% (or -65.00 basis points) from the week ending October 15, 2021. The stock of 12 R&D World Index members gained value from 0.1.50% (Johnson & Johnson)…
DOE awards nearly $18 million for flow battery R&D
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has announced $17.9 million in funding for four research and development projects to scale American manufacturing of flow battery and long-duration storage systems. DOE also launched a new $9 million effort — the Energy Storage for Social Equity Initiative — to assist as many as 15 underserved and frontline communities leverage…
Researchers devise PV cell/battery combo that recharges itself
A group of researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have come up with a coin cell that uses lead-free, bismuth-based, all-inorganic halide perovskite as an anode which also incorporates a photovoltaic cell to recharge itself. Writing in the June 2021 journal Nano Letters, the group says they developed a perovskite that…
The biodegradable battery
by Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology The fabrication device for the battery revolution looks quite inconspicuous: It is a modified, commercially available 3D printer, located in a room in the Empa laboratory building. But the real innovation lies within the recipe for the gelatinous inks this printer can dispense onto a…