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Trash to Treasure: Sustainable recycling of electric vehicle batteries

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

In light of growing challenges and opportunities, Idaho National Laboratory (INL) aims to make the recycling of lithium-ion batteries easier, more efficient, and potentially greener. Encouraging results of these efforts recently appeared in the journal Resources, Conservation and Recycling.

Idaho laboratory joins national research programs for making 'green' hydrogen

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Idaho National Laboratory is a member of two new Department of Energy research consortia charged with exploring new methods and technologies for hydrogen production. Hydrogen can effectively store excess electricity, which can be harvested later via fuel cells.

Rare glassy metal discovered during quest to improve battery performance

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Materials scientists studying recharging fundamentals made an astonishing discovery that could open the door to better batteries, faster catalysts and other materials science leaps.

Journal: Nature Materials

Machine learning helps scientists interpret crystal patterns

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

For scientists and engineers, the best way to understand a new or unknown material -- whether it's an alloy, a pharmaceutical or a meteorite -- is to delve into its atoms. But, analyzing data from these methods, especially diffraction patterns, is a time-consuming process. Now, Idaho National Laboratory researchers have helped develop a computer model that can interpret diffraction patterns in hours instead of weeks.

Making sound from light, INL researchers probe microcrystals

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Figuring out what happens to a material over time can be tough - especially in harsh environments. Scientists would like to probe materials while subjecting them to heat, radiation, and other extreme environmental conditions. Now, researchers are one step closer to this capability, with a demonstration to show that light-generated sound waves can remotely and nondestructively reveal a material's inner structure.

Diamonds vs. coal: Discovery could help fine-tune carbon microstructure

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

A group of researchers at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have conducted a study that could lead to improved methods to fine-tune the carbon microstructure. The scientists reported on their work in a June 2020 Materials Today Chemistry paper.

Commercial alloy qualified for new use, expanding nuclear operating temperature

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

A team at Idaho National Laboratory in collaboration with groups at Argonne and Oak Ridge national laboratories, as well as industry consultants and international partners, has for the first time in 30 years gotten a new material, Alloy 617, into the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.

Advancing high temperature electrolysis: Splitting water to store energy as hydrogen

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Recently, researchers at Idaho National Laboratory developed a new electrode material for an electrochemical cell that can efficiently convert excess electricity and water into hydrogen. When demand for electricity increases, the electrochemical cell is reversible, converting hydrogen back into electricity for the grid. The hydrogen could also be used as fuel for heat, vehicles or other applications.

Journal: Nature Communications

Unraveling the secrets of geopolymers

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

We know the beginning: dead sea life on the bottom of the ocean. And we know the end: petroleum, the result of heat and intense pressure acting on that organic matter over eons. But exactly how you get from start to finish is still a mystery. Solving that riddle could improve many industries.

Idaho researchers discover, correct decades-old nuclear measurement error

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

A recent discovery by researchers at Idaho National Laboratory could correct a decades-old error important in the field of nuclear data. The correction could aid scientists studying fallout from nuclear detonations or experimental nuclear fuels for advanced reactors.

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