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Carbon Nanomembranes for Metal Anodes, Solid-State Battery Materials Testing, Sodium-Ion Batteries, and Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Innovations

This issue of the TechBlick newsletter highlights battery technology, featuring insights from industry experts. Albert Schnieders from CNM Technologies discusses how Carbon Nanomembranes (CNMs) are enabling metal anode batteries by preventing dendrite growth and improving performance with standard separators. Dr. Christoffer Karlsson from rhd Instruments covers the improvements in solid-state battery materials testing through active pressure and temperature control. Rene Windiks from Materials Design explores atomic-scale modeling to optimize battery materials and enhance performance and safety. Marja Vilkman from VTT introduces the SOLiD EU project, focused on sustainable manufacturing and Roll-to-Roll (R2R) processes for solid-state batteries. Lastly, Shmuel De-Leon examines the growing sodium-ion battery market, its advantages and limitations, and the future of mass production.


  1. CNM Technologies | Enabling metal anode batteries by modifying the anode & separator interfaces with Carbon Nanomembranes

  2. rhd Instruments | Improving Solid State Battery Materials Testing through Active Pressure and Temperature Control

  3. Materials Design | Advancing Battery Materials Through Atomic Scale Modeling

  4. VTT | The development of R2R processes for manufacturing solid state batteries. The newly launched SOLID EU project

  5. Shmuel De-Leon | Sodium Ion (Na- Ion) Battery Market 2024. The Next Technology on Battery Mass Production

 

2:00 pm  ­ Avicenne Energy  Challenges And Opportunities For Solid-State Players  ­ ­ 2:20 pm  ­ P3 automotive GmbH  Next-gen battery strategies 2027+: Potentials and challenges for future battery designs and diversification in product portfolios to serve a large bandwidth of market applications  ­ ­ 2:40 pm  ­ Stellantis  The role of materials simulation and AI in development of novel cathodes and anodes  ­ ­ 3:00 pm  ­ SNCF  Needs and challenges for battery technology and infrastructure in electrifying the train system*  ­ Network with the speakers  ­ 3:50 pm  ­ Altris  Sodium-ion industrialization outside Asia*  ­ ­ 4:10 pm  ­ Argonne National Laboratory  Anode and cathode materials for Na ion batteries*  ­ ­ 4:30 pm  ­ Nanode Battery Technologies  Free-Standing Sn-Based Ribbon Anodes for Rechargeable Batteries via a Streamlined Melt Spinning Technique  ­ ­ 4:50 pm  ­ UNIGRID Battery Advanced sodium ion batteries and its superior safety properties  ­ Network with the speakers  ­ 5:40 pm  ­ Fraunhofer IFAM  Printing technology as green alternative for thick layer Li Ion Battery electrode production  ­ ­ 6:00 pm  ­ 8inks  Multilayer coating of battery materials in a single ste*  ­ ­ 6:20 pm  ­ Sakuu  Reinventing manufacturing for better batteries  ­ ­ 6:40 pm  ­ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  Powder-based Additive Manufacturing for Battery Applications  ­ Network with the speakers  ­ 7:30 pm  ­ Georgia Institute of Technology  Interface Evolution in Solid-State Batteries  ­ ­ 7:50 pm  ­ Sandia National Laboratories  Solid State Batteries: How Safe Are They?*  ­ ­ 8:10 pm  ­ General Motors  Solid-State Electrolyte Separators for Li Metal Batteries*  ­ ­ 8:30 pm  ­ Sepion Technologies  Soft membrane and liquid electrolyte technology enabling Li metal anodes*  ­ ­ 12 February 2025  2:00 pm  ­ E-Lyte Innovations GmbH  Enhancing battery safety in Sodium-Ion Batteries: Introduction of a novel electrolyte additive to suppress Sodium plating and improve lifespan  ­ ­ 2:20 pm  ­ Innolith  Next-Generation Li-Ion Batteries: High performance through 5V Stable and Highly Conductive Inorganic Electrolyte  ­ ­ 2:40 pm  ­ LionVolt  3D solid state batteries*  ­ ­ 3:00 pm  ­ AM Batteries  Dry Electrode Manufacturing Technology-An Enabler for Low Cost Batteries.  ­ Network with the speakers  ­ 3:50 pm  ­ Solidion Technology, Inc.  Elastic Polymer-Encapsulated Micron-Scaled Si Particles: A Low-Cost Solution to High-Energy Lithium-ion Batteries  ­ ­ 4:10 pm  ­ SIONIC ENERGY  Si anode technology with drop-in capability  ­ ­ 4:30 pm  ­ Orion Carbons  Frontiers in advanced carbon developments for battery anodes  ­ ­ 4:50 pm  ­ Yale University  Cellulose Batteries  ­ Network with the speakers  ­ 5:40 pm  ­

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  1. CNM Technologies | Enabling metal anode batteries by modifying the anode & separator interfaces with Carbon Nanomembranes


Albert Schnieders | 2023


To overcome the limitations of lithium-ion batteries, new battery technologies, such as lithium and beyond lithium metal, are being investigated. However, these solutions often suffer from dendrite growth or surface passivation at the metal anode site. Carbon nanomembranes (CNMs) are an electrically insulting 2D nanomaterial that has shown its ability to conduct lithium ions and promote homogeneous ion deposition when used in conjunction with conventional separators. These properties open the possibility of using CNMs as a promising material to enable metal anodes batteries, not only by modifying the interface of separators but also of metal anodes by acting as an artificial solid electrolyte interface to prevent dendrite growth. We will discuss in this presentation the technical and economic potential of these possibilities of CNMs in next-generation batteries.


Explore the following in this session:

  • The transition to metal anode batteries and the challenges of excessive dendrite growth.

  • How Carbon Nanomembranes (CNMs) can prevent dendrite build-up in metal batteries.

  • The high potential of CNMs when combined with standard separators in metal-based battery tests.



 
  1. rhd Instruments | Improving Solid State Battery Materials Testing through Active Pressure and Temperature Control


Dr Christoffer Karlsson | 2024


Key takeaways from this session include: Solid electrolyte conductivity - How to achieve reproducibility Pelletization (fabrication) pressure

  • Measurement pressure & Measurement temperature

  • Active materials - Three-electrode full cell testing – Example of NMC/graphite with Li reference electrode



 
  1. Materials Design | Advancing Battery Materials Through Atomic Scale Modeling


Rene Windiks | 2024


Topics covered in this session include: Industry Challenges: Rapid need for low cost, enduring concepts for high energy batteries while maintaining rigorous safety requirements

  • R&D Strategies necessitate a comprehensive understanding and control of the material’s properties and behavior during battery operation

  • The Value of Modeling: Multi-scale simulations insights and data where experiments are costly and time-consuming

  • Collaborative Approach: Materials Design is developing a multi-scale modeling approach together with industrial and academic partners

  • Case Studies: Prediction of thermophysical properties of polymer composites and time evolution of microstructure at metal electrode/solid electrolyte interface



 

Join us on February 11-12, 2024, for the Solid-State Battery Materials, a virtual event by TechBlick. Engage with industry leaders driving innovation in battery technology. Explore the agenda here.  

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  1. VTT | The development of R2R processes for manufacturing solid state batteries. The newly launched SOLID EU project


Marja Vilkman | 2023


In this session, you will learn about: Sustainable batteries

  • The SOLiD project: Sustainable manufacturing and optimized materials and interfaces for lithium metal batteries with digital quality control

  • R2R manufacturing of solid-state batteries

- NMC811 cathode + interfaces

- Polymer electrolyte

- Li anode + interfaces

- Quality control

- Life cycle analysis and exploitation


 
  1. Shmuel De-Leon | Sodium Ion (Na- Ion) Battery Market 2024. The Next Technology on Battery Mass Production


Shmuel De-Leon | 2024


This session is about - Sodium Ion Batteries are the next large production capacity technology for the rechargeable battery arena. Our presentation will review technology advantages/ limitations – and the motivation beyond bringing that technology to the market. Last year around 10 companies in China start production of different cell formats – Cylindrical, Prismatic and pouch. Will review some of the market players status and our prediction for the future Sodium Ion Battery Market.



 

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