April 13, 2023: AM Batteries has partnered with Amperex Know-how to develop solvent-free electrode manufacturing expertise for lithium ion cell manufacturing, the businesses introduced on April 5.
The partnership will additional improve AMB’s dry-electrode manufacturing expertise with Amperex’s lithium battery manufacturing experience, which Chinese language battery large CATL acquired in 2012.
Amperex is now owned by TDK Company of Japan.
The businesses say they wish to deal with the important challenges going through the Li battery sector together with the heavy carbon footprint, power consumption and excessive infrastructure prices derived from the present strategy of eradicating the solvent used for making the electrode.
US-based AMB says it has developed an electrostatic spray-deposition method to provide key battery electrode elements sustainably.
The dry cathode and anode electrode supplies are electrostatically charged and deposited on metal-foil present collectors, that are processed to their remaining state with out the usage of poisonous solvents, the corporate claims.
AMB CEO Yan Wang stated: “One of many basic issues of battery producers is refining the manufacturing strategies to take away the solvents used within the moist coating of the electrodes.
“Our dry-electrode manufacturing expertise permits for the coating of lithium ion battery electrodes with out the necessity for any solvents or energy-intensive evaporation.”
