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Charging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps
  1. Charging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps

    A stabilizing coating on an electrode, combined with microscale channels, helps solve the trade-off between range and charging speed, even in cold temperatures.

  2. Board approves project to expand EV battery research

    The 25,000-square-foot addition will include three battery laboratories, auxiliary support areas, a substation and a facility for battery cell testing, among other capabilities.

  3. Burned rice hulls could help batteries store more charge

    New research finds hard carbon in rice hull ash, providing a cheap, domestic source of the material that can replace graphite in lithium-ion or sodium-ion battery anodes.

  4. U.S. presidential advisory council visited U-M for transportation & mobility research

    ‘There’s an intellectual milieu and an enthusiasm that’s palpable.’

  5. Electric aviation: Batteries that stay strong for the flight duration

    Borrowing methods from biology, a team of scientists and engineers designed and tested an electrolyte that keeps battery power delivery high, cycle after cycle.

  6. Renewable grid: Recovering electricity from heat storage hits 44% efficiency

    Thermophotovoltaics developed at U-M can recover significantly more energy stored in heat batteries.

  7. Better battery manufacturing: Robotic lab vets new reaction design strategy

    Mixing unconventional ingredients in just the right order can make complex materials with fewer impurities. The robotic lab that tested the idea could be widely adopted.

  8. Green chemistry award: Professor recognized for sustainable silicon metal production method

    Richard Laine is the academic category winner in a national EPA contest.

  9. Building a chemical ‘GPT’ to help design a key battery component

    Taking inspiration from the word-predicting large language models, a U-M team is kickstarting an atom-predicting model with 200,000 node hours on Argonne’s Polaris.

  10. Electric aviation: Battery experts, aero entrepreneurs, state leaders and venture capitalists converge

    ‘Here, we have industry and expertise. Take that and combine it with belief—and magic happens.’