Canadian silicon anode supplies developer NEO Battery Supplies has introduced that its P-300N silicon battery materials has outperformed its goal metrics for long-term capability testing.
The P-300N Excessive-Stability Variant exhibited over 90% capability retention for 300 cycles within the coin full cell format, exceeding the goal set at 80% retention given the identical cycle frequency.
The outcomes set up P-300N as probably the most secure silicon battery supplies using metallurgical silicon (MG-Si), which is the lowest-cost silicon enter obtainable for battery-grade functions, the corporate stated.
The outcomes now enable NEO to proceed towards large-cell format testing. The corporate has initiated the battery cell design and structure of single-layer pouch cells, which can contain long-term battery efficiency exams of 500+ cycles to optimize interactions between P-300N, graphite anodes and varied cathode supplies.
To organize concurrently for near-commercial, multi-layer cell testing, NEO is in lively discussions with battery prototypers and world producers in South Korea, the US, and Germany.
Multi-layer cell manufacturing shall be outsourced because of the want for specialised tools. To satisfy requests from world downstream companions, NEO has secured all post-treatment tools and set up is nearing completion on the R&D Scale-Up Centre. It has additionally determined so as to add a key manufacturing unit to broaden its general capability. This high-specification equipment will improve high quality ranges as it is going to allow greater precision management and environment friendly MG-Si processing.
NEO Battery Supplies is working with industrial automation specialist Rockwell Automation to arrange a 240-ton facility with the capability to broaden to five,000 tons of silicon anode materials per yr, in Windsor, Ontario.
Supply: NEO Battery Supplies
