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Stationary ESS demand as an alternative outlet for battery cell capacity.
An amine-modified 2D metal-organic framework stores zinc first and protons second, reporting 368.7 mAh/g and 500-plus fast cycles. It is a material strategy, not a battery.
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A $50 million Department of Energy award moved off a Michigan project and onto brownfield expansions in Franklin, Louisiana and Pampa, Texas, where Cabot is adding about $75 million of its own for a 2028 start.
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The late-August order bans foreign bulk-power equipment on national security grounds and names battery storage specifically, which puts the cheap Chinese cells behind record US deployment inside a bill of materials that has to be signed before the Department of Energy explains the rules.
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Nanjing University's cathode still holds 87.8 percent of its capacity after those 100 cycles, which is a genuine cell-level result and a very short record, and the report attaches no cost figure to the cheap-sodium case.
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The 49.99 percent purchase leaves Samsung SDI sole owner of an Indiana plant that will start on storage cells, with prismatic EV cells reduced to a co-development agreement.
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