Enovix is the leader in advanced silicon-anode lithium-ion battery development and production. This presentation will describe the company's 3D cell architecture which enables the use of an anode that is 100% active silicon anode and mitigates the traditional problems experienced with silicon in lithium-ion batteries: volume expansion, formation lithium loss, and break-up of silicon during cycling leading to poor cycle life.

Ubiquitous adoption of electric vehicles continues to be limited by issues such as range anxiety, long charge times, and cost.  Today, attempts to improve one hurts the other (e.g.; larger packs improve range but increase cost).  In this talk, we will explore the use of new anode materials (silicon and lithium metal) to change the game-increasing range, shrinking charge times, and ultimately increasing power density enough to enable flying cars. We will also evaluate the technology readiness for high volume manufacturing and discuss cost considerations.  

Solid-state does more than enable lithium metal. Sulfide solid electrolytes are a tool to enable a variety of next-generation electrodes such as high-content silicon anodes and conversion-type cathodes. By expanding what is possible in cell and pack design, sulfide solid-state will suit a wide range of application requirements in the future. In this presentation, Solid Power will outline what’s possible, and what has been accomplished so far, using the company's solid-state platform.

QuantumScape, founded in 2010 with a mission to revolutionize energy storage, is developing a solid-state battery with a lithium-metal anode to enable long-range, faster charging, low-cost electric vehicles. The company is driven by the huge opportunity to transform the automotive industry and enable a sustainable future. This talk will highlight recent developments in solid-state batteries as well as the challenges in commercializing a new battery technology.

The field of batteries today is consistently filled with claims that over-promise and under-delivery.   Factorial Energy is taking a different approach. Instead of making claims by comparing apples with oranges, we want to provide down-to-earth solid-state-batteries for EV customers that can be practically commercialized in the near, medium and long terms.

All-solid-state batteries with lithium metal anode offer the possibility of safe high-energy rechargeable batteries. In this talk, I will show how innovative characterization for all-solid-state batteries can be designed to probe buried interphases, and offer new insights to accelerate the innovation of novel energy storage materials and architectures.

The move toward global electromobility for automotive applications requires both sustainable and low-cost materials.  This challenging initiative requires the optimization of material combinations to meet increased energy and power specifications, but also lower the overall cost of the battery.  In this presentation, we will present how the successful use of high-throughput screening methods to develop and optimized electrode designs to improve EV battery key performance indicators.

PolyPlus Battery Company is developing next-generation lithium metal batteries based on the use of continuous sheets of high conductivity sulfide glass separators. The use of lithium metal as an anode will lead to the highest possible energy density for lithium-based chemistries. PolyPlus has a proprietary draw tower installed in its Berkeley facility and has recently produced sulfide glass sheets as thin as 15 microns. The approach is inherently scalable and is expected to reach cost parity with polymeric separators with high volume manufacturing.

With the exponentially growing global battery demand accompanying the rapid rise of electric mobility, the role of battery cathode materials has gained increasing importance due to its significant impact on performance and cost of the cell. Umicore is a global leader in the cathode materials manufacturing space with over 20 years of experience and expertise in development of specialized products using innovative processes, driven primarily by customer demand. In this presentation, we will provide a brief overview of our NMC materials technology for the current market and future direction based on observed trends in the field of clean transportation. We will describe some of our novel approaches to improve the cost and performance of these cathode materials, and our focus on sustainability and ethical sourcing of raw materials. Umicore views the closed-loop business model of recycling materials obtained from end-of-life batteries critical to our operation in the future and expects a greater share of future sourcing through this route.

CAMX will highlight its latest global patents on grain boundary enrichment and present pathways to lower cobalt, improve temperature performance, reduce impedance growth, mitigate cracking, and expand SOC operation.

Batteries are an enabling technology to ensure decarbonization of transportation and the electric grid.  Today’s lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have demonstrated enormous potential to usher in this transition.  However, the energy density, cost, recharge time, lifetime, and safety of these batteries do not satisfy the requirements for complete electrification especially of long-haul trucking, marine, rail, and aviation. The talk will describe the present status of battery technology vis-a-vis the targets, the R&D approaches in the pipelines, the challenges with different materials and chemistry changes, and the impact if the R&D is successful.

Advancements in the capabilities of lithium-ion batteries have slowed down in the last decade. As conventional electrode materials approach their theoretical limits, substantial gains in battery energy density only come as a trade-off in safety or performance. My talk will introduce an innovative drop-in-replacement nanocomposite silicon-based anode powder that completely replaces graphite and offers around 5 times higher gravimetric capacity and enables 20% higher energy density (Wh/L) today over state-of-the-art lithium-ion to power portable electronics and electric vehicles. The unique features of this micron-scale anode material include high first cycle efficiency, very low volume changes during each cycle and very low lifetime electrode swell. This enables battery manufacturers to attain long cycle stability with no prelithiation. The material is 100% compatible with existing lithium-ion factories and is manufacturable at global scale using commodity precursors.

The presentation will make an update on CEA-LITEN developments on high energy density batteries for xEV applications. Last results relative to new oxyfluoride and sulfide rocksalt positive materials will be discussed. Then, our recent achievements on the improvement of lithium metal electrode cyclability will be detailed, combining modelling and experimental approaches. High-energy density cells based on some major innovations will be presented.

The cathode is the decisive cell material for further increasing energy content and lowering the costs of advanced lithium ion battery (LIB) cells. This presentation will focus on the challenges and approaches for development of high-nickel, low-cobalt layered cathodes for high-energy LIBs via a continuous Couette-Taylor-Flow-Reactor. Besides cathode chemistry, tailored particle engineering of layered cathode materials during the co-precipitation allows for an optimum energy output while cycle life can be improved via elemental substitution, concentration gradient design or surface coatings. 

Nanoramic developed a proprietary battery technology, Neocarbonix, that enables Tier-I battery companies and automotive OEMs to achieve next-gen battery performance using existing equipment and manufacturing processes.
Neocarbonix enables PVDF-free cathode electrodes manufactured with an NMP-free coating process, enabling environmentally friendly, lower cost, high-power and energy-dense batteries compatible with any cathode chemistry. Neocarbonix is also an enabler of Si-dominant anodes, using a water-based coating process and inexpensive forms of Si.