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The company has been ramping up its manufacturing capacity over the last year ADVANCING ANODES
Improving the performance of today’s battery cells has so far seen signifi cant advancements to the cathode. However, this company has been directing its efforts towards improving the anode, with impressive results…
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ithin a battery cell, the anode is the negative or reducing electrode that releases electrons to the
external circuit and oxidises during an electrochemical reaction, facilitating the fl ow of electric charge. While the anode is a vital subcomponent of today’s battery cells, recent development has largely focused on improving the eff iciency and capabilities of the cathode, leaving untapped opportunities on the anode side according to LionVolt CEO Kevin Brundish. “The cell, and therefore the battery, is only as good as either one of
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the components, and so the anode has started to trail,” he says. “The mission of our business is to boost the performance of today’s cells. By taking out a graphite anode and replacing it with our lithium anodes, we can get 1.5 times the energy density compared to cells today, which is a very big step change. This enables things like electric fl ight to become more realistic and is applicable to the consumer electronics market, too.”
OPPORTUNITY AWAITS LionVolt is an innovative battery scale- up company focused on developing a
3D electrode technology that can be applied in next generation lithium-ion, sodium-ion and solid-state battery cells. “There are three core outlets for our
technology, as we see it,” Brundish continues. “Lithium anodes can be put in today’s liquid cells to boost performance, but they are also viewed as a core component of a solid-state cell as well, and everything in between. Liquid, gel or solid, our anode can be applied to all of these bases.” Lithium off ers 10 times the energy
of current anode materials, meaning the potential performance benefi ts for today’s battery cells are huge. However,
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