Feature
cent increase in energy
storage capacity, reduce
the energy storage cost
to below $100/kWh, and
extend the lifetime of a
lithium-ion battery.
Improving the chemistry of existing lithium-ion
batteries may continue
to provide a temporary positive return on investment for
battery manufacturers; nevertheless, exploring new chemistries holds the key to drastic cost reduction. Doing so will
lower the cost of manufacturing and extend the lifetime of
lithium-ion batteries, enabling mass adoption for electric
vehicles as well as improvements in battery capabilities for
personal electronics needs.
in favor of a new redox chemistry with the use of low-cost
conducting polymer based electrode materials.
The company's proprietary cathode material under
consideration uses a combination of commercially available
polymers and other raw materials to make up the redoxsupporting cathode structure. This polymer blend can then
be coated over a metal substrate using a simple proprietary
coating process. This process can be substantially more costeffective in comparison to the existing method that currently
utilizes expensive and energy-intensive slurrying and calendaring for existing cathodes in lithium-ion batteries.
Laboratory testing of the company's novel prototype
cathode material have yielded a set of critical data that
translates into targeted lithium-ion battery performance
projections. Much more work needs to be done before the
company can fully commercialize its cathode technology,
but the laboratory data suggests that the use of this cathode material in lithium-ion batteries can result in a 50 per-
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