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By 2030 the entire lithium-ion battery chain, from mining through recycling, is expected to reach a value of $400 billion and a market size of 4.7 TWh. LiB are used in personal electronic devices, e-bikes, tools, green-power storage and electric vehicles. Individual cells are commonly collected into packs or modules to provide the power required for automotive operation. The operational capability ...

The State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) have limited right-of-way (ROW) to construct stormwater treatment controls. Hence innovative self-contained portable stormwater treatment systems are needed to reduce impacts on streams, and other waters; recreation facilities, and habitat by addressing emerging stormwater pollutants, particularly the suspended and dissolved pollutants from highway co ...

Ultramafic rocks host two resources that are key to avoiding catastrophic climate warming: (1) elements essential for mineral carbonation with gigatonne-scale carbon dioxide removal and sequestration (CDRS) potential, and (2) first-row transition elements including nickel and cobalt that are critical for the renewable energy transition. These elements are chemically bound within solid mineral phas ...

This project supports the ARPA-E Mission Area of “improving management, clean-up and disposal of radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel”. A series of tests and demonstrations for deep borehole disposal canisters at the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center in Cameron, Texas - coupled with development of a US supply chain and global tech-to-market partnerships - will mature the canister to Techn ...

This combined phase SBIR I,II,IIS proposal seeks to develop and demonstrate high power lithium battery cells having up to 330 Wh-kg specific energy with capability to fast charge using a novel Liquefied Gas Electrolyte (LiGas) technology. The LiGas electrolyte uses safe and non-toxic, non-corrosive gasses which are liquefied under moderate pressures and are easily contained in standard cylindrical ...

We propose to develop and commercialize a potassium-ion battery for use in electric vehicles (EVs). The fundamental properties of potassium transport in organic electrolytes allow for fast charging from 0 to 80% capacity in less than 5 minutes. The battery will pair a stable, open-framework cathode based on a Prussian blue analog (PBA) with a conventional graphite anode for a high-performance batt ...

K2 Space is building high performance satellite platforms to leverage the capabilities of the next generation of heavy and super heavy space launch vehicles like SpaceX’s Starship.  The K2 Space platform utilizes proven technologies applied at an unprecedented scale to deliver far more payload mass, power, and propulsive capabilities than current spacecraft while reducing the cost by an order o ...

The complex nature of cyber incidents, combined with the sophistication of threat actors makes it nearly impossible for security teams to identify and fully understand all the details of a compromise before, during, or even after a breach. This is because security teams struggle to find and react to even a single incident amongst a sea of data across an entire infrastructure and an attackers seemi ...

This project is to develop next-generation efficient, secure, ultra-reliable, and low latency communication to support military operations in an unpredictable and contested environment. The solution is software-defined, platform and system agnostic. It can be commonly implemented on existing communication hardware or any future systems and platforms, from portable radio in the war zone to Satelli ...

Hardware innovation needs new and disruptive manufacturing processes that enable iteration in production and scale-up with low upfront costs. Machine tools that allow for cost-efficient, quick prototyping could represent a game-changer for industrial and technological progress. To this end, Vuecason, Inc. aims to revolutionize metal additive manufacturing (AM) through its first-of-its-kind metal 3 ...