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EETD Researchers Win 2013 R&D 100 Award for New Battery Technology

July 8, 2013

A team of Berkeley Lab Environmental Energy Technologies Division researchers led by Gao Liu has won a 2013 R&D 100 Award for developing a technology to boost the power storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries. Liu's team included Wanli Yang, Lin-Wang Wang, and Vincent Battaglia and postdoctoral fellows Sang-Jae Park, Mingyan Wu, and Shidi Xun.

The new material, for use in rechargeable batteries, can boost power storage capacity by 30 percent, a dramatic improvement in a field marked by little progress for more than a decade. It is called Conducting Polymer Binder, literally a kind of flexible plastic glue that holds electrode materials together while facilitating the shuttling of electrons and positively charged lithium ions.

Read more about this technology, which is available for licensing, by going to the link below.