Addionics, a provider of battery technology and 3D current collector manufacturer, and IL Science, a front-runner in mobility and battery solutions, announced a partnership through a memorandum of understanding (MOU). This collaboration aims to advance lithium metal rechargeable batteries by integrating high-stability lithium metal with advanced next-generation copper current collectors.
The partnership is crucial for enhancing battery capabilities and addressing key challenges, which have hindered their broader adoption.
Lithium-metal batteries are advantageous due to their lightweight, high-energy density, and fast-charging features, presenting a significant advancement over traditional lithium-ion batteries. Despite these benefits, safety, durability, and cost concerns have limited their widespread application.
The synergy between Addionics’ 3D Current Collectors, a groundbreaking approach to battery architecture, and IL Science’s lithium coating and treatment technologies aims to overcome these hurdles. By bolstering the performance, and marketability, of lithium-ion batteries with lithium-metal anodes this partnership represents a leap forward for battery technology.
The high-stability 3D lithium anode developed as part of the collaboration will contribute to the commercialization of high-performance, next-generation lithium rechargeable batteries and will create new opportunities for major battery manufacturers worldwide.
“This collaboration comes as the demand from battery manufacturers, and the auto industry, for lithium-metal batteries is growing, so accelerating the development of 3D current collectors designed for these batteries is critical,” said Dr. Moshiel Bitton, CEO and co-founder of Addionics. “Combining our expertise in battery technology innovation and growing manufacturing capabilities in the US with IL Science’s experience in the mobility market, utilizing its mass production know-how and well-developed supply chain, will help us bring our new product, and high-performance lithium-metal batteries, to the market as soon as possible.”
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