Sylvatex (SVX), a Bay Area-based battery materials manufacturing technology company producing lower carbon cathode active materials (CAM) for electric vehicles (EVs), recently announced itself as a recipient of $1.4M total project funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARAP-E).
The original SVX award included $500k funding under the TINA Topic W or Supporting Entrepreneurial Energy Discoveries (SEED) program since 2022.
With $982k supplemental funding and an additional two-year project, the SVX Team continues to develop competitive battery-grade LFP materials and support the critical mission of catalyzing new domestic LIB manufacturing, fortifying battery materials supply chain security, and advancing technology to strengthen U.S. leadership in the clean energy future.
“SVX’s proprietary nanomaterial platform has already demonstrated a significant breakthrough in synthesizing cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs),” said Dr. Halle Cheeseman, program director for both SVX’s SEED and EVs4ALL programs. “It’s ARPA-E project will engage in domestic sourcing and production of LFP materials via low-cost feedstocks with a controlled, continuous approach that will reduce energy consumption, waste and cost.”
The funding follows a recent Realizing Accelerated Manufacturing and Production for Clean Energy Technologies (RAMP) grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC). Sylvatex is actively working with industrial, national laboratories and commercial partners to expedite time to market and create a pathway for domestic production.
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