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Yes, storEnergy is online! Get engaged and check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram, twitter or at the Centre website. Here's a few of the top social media stories from around the Centre (and beyond) that you may have missed!
- New H2X hydrogen car manufacturing site proposed for Port Kembla.
- Great results using cheap cathodes for a sodium-sulphur battery in Monash-Deakin-IITB collaboration
- Success with Calix’s LEILAC reactor in Heidelberg, Germany, has seen it’s development move to the next phase.
- A paper out of Stanford has created some buzz looking at a new design strategy for electrolyte salts.
- More out of Stanford with a series of seminars, the StorageX Initiative, featuring leading researchers.
- Something different? Really just a cool photo of a wind turbine in Victoria’s 312MW wind farm
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Centre Activity
General
- New StorEnergy PhD position at QUT under Prof. Jose Alarco is now advertised!
- Other PhD positions also available at Deakin's IFM.
- Suleyman Yildiz has started his PhD project between Deakin and M. Brodribb with a supervisory team of Richard Brodribb, Patrick Howlett and Robert Kerr.
- The website for the Deakin teacher training symposium is up! Check out the online educational materials prepared by the undergarduate teachers here.
- Deakin PhD students Meisam and Sneha arrived safely back in Australia after being stranded in Munich for 2 months! Welcome back guys!
- The series of thought-provoking ACES webinars continue. June 23rd featured a panel of journalists who gave their insights into the workings of science media. The webinars are free to register and recordings are available on the ACES cloudstor. Contact us for more info.
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Climate LaunchPad competition
Deakin has two teams competing in the global Climate LaunchPad competition, with both progressing through to the 'Boot Camp' stage. The competition is looking for ''nascent, breakthrough ‘green’ business ideas'' and is set up to help aspiring entrepreneurs grow their clean tech ideas into global businesses. Those teams who progress through the state finals, national finals and regional finals – will have an opportunity to pitch in front of a global audience at the virtual Global Grand Final, among the most innovative entrepreneurs from over 55 countries, as well as investors, media and industry leaders.
The two teams entered from Deakin are based on the group's technologies for sodium and lithium batteries. Here is a little bit of what the teams had to say;
Team Sodium (aka ElevenStore)
Our idea is based on sodium batteries for mobility applications e.g. buses, scooters, Auto-rickshaws in South East Asia and we want to focus it around cheap, affordable transportation. Our group is called ElevenStore - as sodium Na atomic number is 11 and we want to store the energy 🙂
Team Lithium (aka Lionics Energy)
The name of the project is "Lionics Energy" which stands for Li+Ionic Liquid. Our battery electrolyte technology allows for the next generation of high energy-density lithium-based batteries to operate where Li-ion batteries perform poorly. The proposed business idea is to establish an advanced Lithium metal battery cell manufacturing facility that will serve niche markets, such as mining trucks operating in the hot Australian climate. The improved battery performance will aid in the electrification of mine sites and the truck fleet, thereby reducing diesel emissions and saving the planet from nasty fossil fuels.
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Meet your Centre - Simon Savage
In this series of feature articles and video interviews, we want to dig a little deeper into what makes all of our Centre participants tick. It is a light-hearted and informative way to get to know your fellow storEnergy colleagues.
This month we have our feature article on Ionic Industries' Managing Director, Simon Savage.
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