Innovation Segment : Energy Storage

Innovation Insights

Glass battery technology with High cycle life

United States

 A new glass battery developed by John Goodenough, one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for the invention of the lithium-ion battery, is moving into the commercialization stage of development with Canadian electric utility Hydro-Quebec.

Karim Zaghib, Head of the Centre, says “Hydro-Québec was the first company to work on true lithium batteries in 1979”, and it worked with Prof. Goodenough in 1996 to commercialize the now fairly common LiFePo4 battery in 1996.

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Innovation Theme: Lithium glass battery could recharge 23,000 times, Glass battery has solid-state electrolyte, lithium- or sodium-glass battery has three times the energy storage capacity of a comparable lithium-ion battery.

Relevant for

  • Mechanical engineer
  • Electrical engineer
  • Electronics engineer
  • Power electronics engineer
  • Microelectronics engineer
  • Telecommunications engineer
  • Semiconductors / optoelectronics engineer
  • Chemical engineer
  • Material sciences professional

Innovation sector

  • Electrical engineering
  • Electronics & communications
  • Energy efficiency
  • Energy storage
  • Power engineering

Domain

Energy Efficiency

Energy storage

Sustainable transport

Type of innovation

Core sciences & engineering

Digital

Business model

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University researcher

Corporate researcher

Startup or entrepreneur

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