From left to right: Chemours President & CEO Denise Dignam, US Senator Chris Coons (Del.), Chemours – Advanced Performance Materials President Gerardo Familiar. (Photo: Business Wire)
The Chemours Company, a provider of innovative performance chemistry, announced the opening of the Chemours Battery Innovation Center (CBIC) — a first-in-its-class laboratory facility located at the Chemours Discovery Hub in Newark, Delaware.
A multi-million-dollar investment, the CBIC supports the testing and scaling of next-generation battery technologies, to enable more sustainable, cost-effective, energy-efficient, and high-performing batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs).
The CBIC leverages Chemours’ application development expertise to drive innovation in partnership with customers to scale the production of more sustainable, high-performance lithium-ion batteries (LiBs).
The new facility will serve as a technical support lab for partners and customers to collaborate with Chemours’ engineers to iterate, pilot, and adopt novel approaches to fabricating cost-effective LiBs.
“Electric vehicles are an essential part of the clean energy transition, and Chemours is dedicated to applying our advanced chemistry and material science knowledge to accelerate the electric future,” said Gerardo Familiar, president of Advanced Performance Materials at Chemours.
The CBIC’s state-of-the-art equipment and data analytics capabilities enable predictive modeling to help EV manufacturers adopt this novel battery manufacturing technology to make better-performing EVs a reality.
“For example, our Teflon fluoropolymer binders are vital in developing solvent-free battery electrode manufacturing, which unlocks the path for more cost-effective and energy-efficient vehicles,” added Familiar. “Through the Chemours Battery Innovation Center, we can enable the adoption and scalability of this novel dry electrode coating technology to advance the capabilities of LiBs and the electric vehicle industry.”
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