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["Organization Name","Contact Name","Contact Address","Contact Email","Contact Phone","Organization Type","Area of Technical Expertise","Brief Description of Capabilities","AOI"]
[" Ecobat Solutions, Inc.","Thomas Schaefer","433 E Las Colinas Blvd, Suite 900, Irving, TX 75039 ","Thomas.Schaefer@ecobat.com","972-207-7291","Delaware Corporation","Battery Recycling","Full service lead acid battery recycling in US and Europe, lithium transportation, diagnostics, sorting and shredding in Europe","11, Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Recycling"]
["A3 Global (including Nuvant Systems subsidiary)","Aaron Poynton","300 Schell LN, Suite 309-310, Phoenixville, PA 19460, USA","apoynton@a3global.com","443-643-8811",null,"Battery reman/reconditioning, battery R&D, battery testing equipment manufacturing, energy storage",null,"Second life applications"]
["Battery Innovation Center","Ben M. Wrightsman","7970 S Energy Dr.; Newberry, IN 47449","ben.wrightsman@bicindiana.com","317-331-1197","Not-for-Profit","Advanced Battery Technology, Domestic Lithium and Emerging Battery Production, Energy Storage Innovation and  Technology Establishment,  Battery Materials Research and Development, Hybrid and Electric Drive Vehicle Energy Systems, along with Renewable Energy Systems","We have a state-of-the-art facility with integrated space for battery research, product development, testing and low-volume manufacturing, and workforce training. The BIC Laboratory, located at the NSWC Crane Technology Park at Westgate, provides world class R&D capability, proof of commercialization production, power electronics, systems,  hands on learning and collaboration, plus established full test capabilities.  ","all"]
["NanoGraf Corporation ","Jeff Helm ","3440 S Dearborn St., Suite #113N Chicago, IL 60616 ","jeff@nanograf.com","248-875-3010 ","Small Business ","Si-Anode Material","NanoGraf has developed a novel high energy density Si-based anode material (the “NanoGraf Material”) that has the long-term potential to replace graphitic-based anodes in lithium-ion batteries for a range of applications."]
["EnZinc Inc.","Michael F. Burz","1301 S. 46th Street, Building 478, Richmond, CA 94804","mburz@enzinc.com","301-312-4780","Battery Developer","Design, build, test and manufacturer of zinc-based batteries","Enzinc has developed a zinc sponge anode using technology licensed from the US Naval Research Laboratory that eliminates dendrite growth, can be used with multiple cathode materials, and delivers the energy of lithium-based batteries, has a cost like lead-acid, and is recyclable.Enzinc has the capability to design, fabricate, test, and produce zinc anodes and zinc-based batteries. The batteries can be assembled in existing lead-acid or NiMH/NiCad factories.","Interested in teaming with lead-acid and nickel metal hydride/nickel cadmium manufacturers to manufacture and deploy first nickel-zinc batteries to be followed by manganese-zinc batteries."]
["San Deigo State University","Chris Mi","5500 Campanile Drive E-426, San Diego, CA 92182","cmi@sdsu.edu","734-765-8321","University","Second-life EV battery, energy storage, battery recycling, power electronics","SDSU has carried out a research project with the Califronia Commission on secondlife EV battery paired with a solar panle system. SDSU is also specialized in power electronics, battery charging, and battery recycling, battery management system. ","Area of Interest 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11\n\nArea of Interest 12"]
["Princeton NuEnergy","Xiaofang Yang","1200 Florence Columbus Rd, Bordentown, NJ 08505","xiaofang_yang@pnecycle.com","215-410-8747","Company"," energy storage materials  and technology, battery recycling, battery material production","Princeton NuEnergy (PNE) is a high-tech renewable energy company with the mission of delivering innovative energy and environmental solutions.  PNE has carried out battery recycling projects with DOE using a plasma based technology.","Area of Interest 1,2,3,4,5,6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11\n\nArea of Interest 12"]
["Automat Solutions, Inc.","Leon Wang","46305 Landing Pkwy, Fremont, CA 94538-6407"," lwang@automatsoln.com","631-605-6086","C Corp","Battery electrolyte production, machine learning, high-throughput robotic experimentation, self-driving electrolyte R&D","Automat Solutions is a US-based battery electrolyte R&D and manufacturing supplier. It is headquartered in the Bay Area. Its product portfolio includes high-performance Li-ion electrolytes, Li-metal electrolytes, and solid-state electrolytes. The competitive advantages include paradigm-shifting R&D capabilities and supply proximity for the US market. Automat Solutions develops high-performance battery material products, using a transformative approach to simplify materials discovery and to accelerate Time to Market (TTM). The approach consists of a Materials Artificial Intelligence (AI) Robotics-driven System (MARS) that is purposefully built for materials innovation, combining machine learning and robotic high-throughput experimentation. ","Area of Interest 10 - Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Component Manufacturing Open Topic; Area of Interest 5 – Demonstrations of Domestic Battery Materials Separation and Processing Open Topic"]
["Advanced Battery Concepts","Dr. Reed Shick","        Advanced Battery Concepts                                                8 Consumers Energy Parkway                                                Clare, MI  48617","rshick@advancedbatteryconcepts.com","Office 989-424-6645 Ext 210\n    Cell 989-430-9041","Michigan LLC","Reusable bipolar battery manufacturing","Advanced Battery Concepts has developed next-generation battery chemistry and architecture to manufacture, use, disassemble, and remanufacture reusable large scale grid storage batteries.  We will build a large scale demonstration facility using low energy processing, domestic supplied materials in a safe, low cost, self-contained manufacturing process. "]
["Albemarle Corporation","Barbara Little",null,"Barbara.Little@albemarle.com","301-332-4823","Global specialty chemical company and one of the world’s largest producers of lithium","Lithium mining processing operations in USA, Chile, Australia all of which make us experts in lithium extraction technology.  Also expert in processing lithium into lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide for use in LI Ion batteries.","Complete mining-to-market lithium technology leader including, resource evaluation/mining planning & management, lithium extraction/purification/refined products, advanced high-performance lithium materials to enable next frontier battery performance, deep data science connecting material physics to market needs, recycling of lithium streams from manufacturing and end-of-life battery recycling.","domestic resource development, domestic refined lithium production, recycling capability & ecosystem development, advanced performance materials, co-development incubators to accelerate development, scale-up & commercialization of advanced performance batteries."]
["PPG","Zhilian Zhou ","4325 Rosanna Drive; Allison Park, PA 15101 ","Zhilian.Zhou@ppg.com","412-492-5286","Corporation","Cathode and anode binders, electrode manufacturing;     Fire protection & thermal management materials for battery safety; Polymer/coating material design and processing","NMP -free cathode binders that provide  excellent battery performance,  improved safety and process efficiency for electrode production, drop-in solution for current manufacturing equipment;  Coating solutions to improve safe operation of battery pack, including dielectric, thermal management and fire protection materials; Material and process expertise for coating materials ","6,7,9,10,12"]
["TexPower EV Technologies","Evan Erickson","5000 Gulf Fwy, Bldg 5 #146, Houston, TX 77079","evan.m.erickson@texpowerev.com","763-339-9470","Corporation","US-based lithium-ion battery cathode manufacturer","TexPower is a startup company spun out of the University of Texas at Austin in early 2019, continuing the disruptive innovations led by Profs. John B. Goodenough and Arumugam Manthiram on lithium-ion batteries. We aim to deploy our novel cobalt-free, high-energy, drop-in cathode materials in lithium-based batteries used across the U.S. and beyond. Our cathodes can replace commercial battery cathodes “Powder for Powder”, and thus are extremely flexible for any battery form factor and are applicable wherever portable power is required.","Areas of Interest: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, & 12"]
["Storagenergy Technologies, Inc.","Dr. Feng Zhao (CEO)","1990 S Milestone Dr., Suite A, Salt Lake City, UT 84104","fzhao@storagenergy.com","801.386.8555","Small Business, Technology Development","Electrochemical Energy Storage and Production, Manufacturing (Pilot)","Storagenergy has 10+ years of experience developing battery technologies. We recently built a pilot-scale flame-assisted spray pyrolysis (FAST) reactor for the manufacturing of battery cathode materials (NMC, NCA). This technology has the potential to produce cathode materials faster and more cheaply than conventional methods, is versatile for a variety of cathode chemistries, is directly scalable, and compatible with closed-loop direct recycling and up-cycling. We also have an operational battery manufacturing pilot line for pouch cell prototyping to demonstrate the performance of our advanced battery materials.","12–Domestic Cell and Component Manufacturing Demonstration "]
["Mitra Chem","Vivaswath Kumar","1245 Terra Bella Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043","vivas@mitrachem.com","650-695-1245",null,"Iron-based cathodes for lithium-ion batteries ","Battery materials product company focused on reducing lab-to-production timeline by >90%","Commercial-scale Domestic separation of battery materials from extracted feedstocks for Cathode Production"]
["Sylvatex (SVX)","Virginia Irwin Klausmeier, CEO",null,"admin@sylvatex.com","415-662-3835","For-profit corporation","Cathode materials synthesis","o\tThe company has deep collaborations with LBNL and Argonne and connects to the University of Cal Berkeley through their work with CalCharge/New Energy Nexus. SVX is a women-led organization, with ~50% of its workforce from minority groups. \no\tWe have the ability to scale, pilot and demonstration production of known cathode materials and qualify with industry partners.\no\tAt the heart of SVX's mission is to advance manufacturing to create the lowest carbon, lowest cost domestically produced battery material.\no\tSVX Advanced Green Manufacturing is a melt synthesis one-pot reaction that eliminates the need for water in manufacturing. It enables the use of recycled materials such as metal oxides or hydroxides instead of conventional metal sulfates. We optimize the cathode manufacturing process by using these raw materials and removing the separation and drying step, slashing CapEx needs by 55+% and OpEx by 50+%, significantly reducing production time, and reducing energy use/carbon footprint by 85%.","Areas of interest - 1, 3, 7, 12"]
["Syrah Technologies LLC","Viren Hira","2001 D A Biglane Rd, Vidalia, LA 71373, United States","v.hira@syrahresources.com.au",null,"Corporation","Natural graphite and active anode material products.","Syrah Technologies LLC is aiming to build an active anode materials plant in Vidalia, LA.\n\nThis plant will sphericalize and purify natural graphite flakes to produce active anode materials which is suitable for use in batteries purposed for electric vehicles build in USA. ","AOI 2\nAOI 3\nAOI 5"]
["SGL Carbon, LLC","Erica ODell","10715 David Taylor Drive, Suite 460, Charlotte, NC 28262","erica.odell@sglcarbon.com","T:814-781-2673 M:814-389-6233","Established producer for carbon and graphite based products  ","Graphite, incl. LiB anode materials (incl. silicon based)","Full service manufacturer of synthetic graphite, including Li-ion battery anode materials, with wide range of manufacturing, R&D and application technology knowhow. Intention to scale capacities for sustainable world class anode materials at US sites according to US cell makers’ needs, to contribute to the development of a local value chain supporting the decarbonization of US ecosystem   ","AOI 2                              AOI 9"]
["Global Battery Solutions","Ellington Ellis","581 Ottawa Ave.\nSuite 100\n\n","eellis@globalbatterysolutions.com","616.265.0245",null,"Battery Lifecycle Management Company","GBS is the go-to partner for EV and ESS battery lifecycle support:\n1.\tPioneers in the development and commercialization of the 4R’s process to battery service–repairing, remanufacturing, repurposing, recycling. GBS is one of the first companies to engage in this cradle-to-cradle approach of utilizing batteries as they move through their life cycles, this is more sustainable and helps support a closed-loop process to managing the materials while maximizing the energy potential of the cells; GBS has developed an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for next generation battery lifecycle management\n2.\tGBS’ innovative commercial process help sustain and enhance the value stream for batteries; cost, lifecycle, safety, and range efficiencies in initial use, then enhanced potential for 2nd life applications.\n3.\tDevelopers of the incelligent cell™ an ASIC that attaches to battery cells during manufacturing and persists throughout its lifecycle. The ASIC is also capable of aftermarket integration to battery modules/packs.\n4.\tGBS has groundbreaking patents in monitoring, tracking, and controlling rechargeable battery cells/packs.","AOIs 10 and 11"]
["Nanotech Energy","Michael Lang","311 Otterson Dr.; Chico, CA 95928","mlang@nanotechenergy.com","530-355-4872"]
["Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)","Stephanie Shaw"," 3420 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94306","sshaw@epri.com","650-855-2353","Non-Profit Research Institute","Demonstration of storage technologies and applications; performance and reliabilty; measurement and verification; techno-economic modeling and analysis (e.g, StorageVET and DER-VET); cost-benefit anaysis; recycling and second use; environment, health and safety assessments; technology transfer","Extensive experience managing and executing complex projects funded by federal and state agencies and utilities, in delivering a range of energy storage, microgrid, and smart grid demonstrations with actionable research findings. Partnerships with a wide range of utility, research and market stakeholders. Expertise and tools in automotive energy storage, building systems, microgrids, testing and verification, systems engineering, software and economic analysis, recycling and second use; and environmental health and safety analysis, as well as business model creation, codes and standards as well as system operation, measurement and verification.","All"]
["easyXAFS LLC","Devon Mortensen","879 Rainier Ave N, Suite A103, Renton WA 98057","devon@easyxafs.com",null,null,"We manufacture benchtop capability for x-ray absorption spectroscopy, giving an analytical alternative to synchrotron use.  These instruments  can determine element-specific metal oxidation state and local coordination in cathode precursors, cathode materials, and real-time charging studies for pouch cells including long-baseline studies of capacity fade.  We seek partnerships related to battery development or, especially, partnerships aimed at achieving high-throughput element-specific quality control of metal-oxide precursors or cathodes via application-customized quantification of transition metal oxidation state and local bonding environment.",null,"1, 3, 4, 5, 7"]
["Siemens Corporation, Technology","Jean Yves Delannoy","755 College Road East / Princeton, NJ 08540"," jean-yves.delannoy@siemens.com","(609) 216-0075","Large Business","molecular modeling, simulation, AI, ML, polymers, material science, soft matter","capacities to model and simulate various soft matter systems (including polymer, formulations) using a broad range of tools ranging from  molecular description to process simulation. Specialized in multi scale modeling and model order reduction. ","batteries, polymers, electrolytes, solid electrolytes, metals, ceramics, recycling, additive manufacturing and corresponding simulation techniques"]
["Hazen Research, Inc.","Dr. Thomas A. Kodenkandath","4601 Indiana Street, Golden, CO-80403","Kodenkandatht@hazenresearch.com","303-279-4501 Exn. 239","Small Business","Materials Development, Process Engineering and Toll Manufacturing ","Under DoE program and in partnership with NREL, Hazen Research has developed a  simpler, lower-cost and environmentally (more) benign platform technology for the production of various cathodes (NMC-622, SC-NMC-811 and LiNMO) based on spray-pyrolysis. \nWe have scaled-up the process for Ni-rich NMC and validated the cathode performance as 1Ah full cells. We have also designed, built and operated pilot plants and serve as toll-manufacturer of advanced materials .  In partnership with ANL, we have  demonstrated a simpler method for the direct recycling of NMC cathodes using an all-in-one reactor. We also have significant capabilities and expertise in hydro-metallurgy for the Li- battery recycling. Hazen Research have been serving materials, metallurgy and mining industries for over 60 years ","1 – Commercial-scale Domestic separation of battery materials from extracted feedstocks for Cathode Production\n5 – Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Cathode Manufacturing \n11 - Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Recycling"]
["HiT Nano","Dr. Christopher Abram","1200 Florence Columbus Road, Bordentown, NJ08505","cabram@hitnanoinc.com","267 824 6777","small business","Cathode synthesis and manufacturing ","HiT Nano has developed two cathode production methods which lower the number of processing steps, cost, energy consumption and environmental impact. (1) MACHT [micro-aerosol controlled high temperature] is an aerosol pyrolysis synthesis method which produces high quality cathode material precursors including Li in a single step, without waste any water. MACHT is adaptive to a wide range of cathode materials (NCM811, NCM111, NCA, LNMO), which can incorporate coating layers, concentration gradients and precise ion doping during the single processing step. (2) DMOC [direct metal oxidation to cathode] is a newly developed solid state synthesis method which produces high performance cathode materials directly from pure metal in a single oxidation and lithiation step without the need for solvent or secondary washing steps. This is a drop in process which is compatible with the existing cathode manufacturing infrastructure and can be easily scaled up. HiT Nano are looking to partner with metal refiners, materials producers and battery/EV manufacturers to scale up these technologies for sustainable US domestic cathode manufacturing. AOI 12 is of primary interest.","All - AOI 12 particular interest"]
["Compact Power Inc. d/b/a Lightening Energy ","Michael Epstein","211 Warren Street #523 \nNewark, NJ 07103 ","mike.epstein@lighteningenergy.com ","973-200-0931 ","small business ",null,"The company is a small business with 15 years track record and expertise in developing, engineering and producing advanced materials, components and systems for ultra-high rate batteries and recharging systems. Hallmarks include ultra-rapid recharging, ultra-long cycle life, safety and recyclability.    Materials and systems engineering expertise includes solid state, non-solid state and other advanced materials. The company also has expertise in advanced systems engineering and ai applications.","6 - Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Cell Manufacturing;   \n7 - Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Cathode Manufacturing;  \n8 - Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Separator Manufacturing;   \n10 - Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Component Manufacturing, and   \n12 – Domestic Battery Cell and Component Manufacturing Demonstration"]
["Stellar Pride, Inc","Edmund I. Lee","3578 Rambla Place, Suite 132, Santa Clara, CA. 95051","edmund.lee@stellarpride.com","650-407-7285","Corporation","Battery manufacturing equipment","Stellar Pride has supported a Korean pilot scale battery equipment maker for nearly 10 years. The equipment has been provided to various DOE labs such as ANL, ORNLe and PNNL.  ","Stellar Pride is now seeking opportunities to produce batteries in the US or provide US made battery manufacturing equipment. "]
["Octillion Power Systems","Max Eberstadt-Beattie","860 Harbour Way s. Richmond, Ca, 94804","Max@octillion.us","917-445-7697","Private Business","Battery development for EV and energy storage.","Battery development for EV and energy storage.\nDescription of Capabilities: We are a Tier-1 international battery supplier with 8 gWh worth of production. We are able to build prototypes for vehicle OEMS and energy producers and then mass produce at whatever scale our customers need.","Battery integration"]
["Redflow LLC","Mark Higgins, President / Chief Commercial Officer","690 Roberts Rd #938, Pacifica, CA 94044","mark.higgins@redflow.com","1.415.275.1315","Zn-Br Flow battery manufacturer","Redflow is a technology company with 15+ years developing and manufacturing zinc bromine flow batteries. Our batteries can be deployed in behind-the-meter C&I applications all the way to large-scale front-of-meter deployments. ","We have a commercially proven and deployed technology that is currently produced in our company-owned manufacturing facility in Thailand that serves our global battery deliveries. ","We are interested in working with U.S. suppliers of zinc bromine flow battery components to evaluate opportunities to augment our global component supply chain with U.S.-based sources of components. We have additional interest in exploring partnerships to augment our global manufacturing capability with a U.S. facility to support growing demand for our batteries."]
["EWI (Edison Welding Institute)","James Cruz","1250 Arthur E Adams Drive, Columbus, OH, 43221 USA","jcruz@ewi.org","614-285-4393","Non-Profit Research Institute","Applied R&D in the areas of: advanced joining methods, dissimilar materials joining, light-weighting, materials forming, additive manufacturing, advanced laser processing, in-process sensing and control, nondestructive evaluation, failure analysis, structural integrity, materials testing,  and corrosion evaluation.","EWI has extensive experience managing and teaming on complex commercial and government R&D programs in partnership with a wide range of materials suppliers, manufacturers, equipment vendors, universities, small businesses and national labs to provide advanced manufacturing solutions.  EWI has over 100 experts with materials and manufacturing expertise utilizing state-of-the-art facilities with a wide range of manufacturing, testing and analysis equipment to deliver world class R&D capability, proof of concept, low rate initial production, and hands-on learning and collaboration.   EWI has over 15 years experience in advanced battery and fuel cell assembly including: tab to bus welding with lasers, ultrasonic, and resistance welding; high-speed laser processing (welding and cutting) for batteries, fuel cell, and heat exchangers; fusible links with wire bonding technologies; powder metallurgy and characerization; resistance and ultrasonic powder compaction; interface engineering; electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for corrosion performance; advanced materials forming/stamping simulation, development, evaluation, and testing; advanced battery box manufacturing using AM, ultrasonics, lasers, and friction stir welding; AM process development and materials characterization, and AM for advanced tooling.  ","All - AOI 12 particular interest"]
["Galaxy Energy","Dr Charlies F. Gay President","Westlake Village, CA 91361","Charlie.Gay@GalaxyEnergy.org","1-805-341-4137","International Affiliate of Galaxy Magnesium","Electrode manufacturing; Battery assembly automation; Customized lightweight alloy production; Low cost fused magnesium sandwich structure fabrication; Reliability testing","Ultra-low mass cell electrode material formation incorporating specialty alloys with integral surfaces such as lithium coated anodes and graphene glazed cathodes; Battery module packaging in bifurcated torque tube configuration; Vehicle design, prototyping and pilot manufacturing (Galaxy Motion)","Component manufacturing at scale; System level battery and vehicle performance durability testing; Supply chain optimization ensuring circular economy objectives meet greenhouse gas minimization targets"]
["EC Power Group, Inc.","Eric Rountree","341 Science Park Drive, State College, PA 16803","erountree@ecpowergroup.com","984-234-9712","Small business","Lithium-ion cell manufacturing, Lithium-ion battery R&D, Thermal Management","EC Power is a custom lithium-ion cell fabricator for cells down to the coin cell size and up to 35 Ah. We are home to the novel, \"thermally modulated cell\" which has enabled utilization of 80% of the room temperature energy density in electric vehicles at -40oC, as well as extreme fast charging batteries delivering 200 miles of range in 10 minutes for >1000 consecutive cycles.","6, 10 and 12"]
["Siemens Corporation, Technology","Nareshkumar Nandola","755 College Road East / Princeton, NJ 08540","Nareshkumar.Nandola@siemens.com","(609) 250-5712","Large Business","Model Predictive Control (MPC), Mixed integer linear and nonlinear optimization models and algorithms, optimal planning and scheduling, and time-series modeling","capabilities to develop scheduling, optimization, control, fault diagnosis and performance monitoring solutions for various discrete manufacturing and chemical process industries using Siemens’ proprietary tools such as SIMIT, as well as MATLAB/Simulink","battery manufacturing process, continuous and batch chemical processes, process automation"]
["X-BATT (A Semplastics Company)","Kyle Marcus","269 Aulin Avenue, Suite 1003, Oviedo, FL 32765","kmarcus@semplastics.com","971-221-5807","Small Business","Materials Synthesis R&D, SiOC Anode Composite Material, Polymer Derived Ceramics (PDCs)","X-BATT has developed a low-cost and scalable technology that incorporates a variety of pure or impure carbon materials such as battery grade carbon,  domestic coal, or recycled graphite from production scrap / EOL batteries, into high energy dense ceramic composite anodes for lithium-ion batteries. This is made possible by blending our proprietary, highly tunable, electrochemically active SiOC Polymer Derived Ceramic (PDC) resin technology with a carbon source, where the ratios of Si, O, and C can be dramatically changed to fit specific applications. Our intention is to support operations that are looking for a unique, valuable, and domestic solution to address issues concerning raw materials supply and availability. The X-BATT team has more than 85 years of combined experience synthesizing PDCs and is looking for a strategic partnership to advance this novel anode technology.","AOI 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12"]
["Siemens Corporation, Technology","Sudhir Rajagopalan","755 College Road East / Princeton, NJ 08540","Sudhir.Rajagopalan@siemens.com","(704) 492-6337","Large Business","Factory Automation solutions","Develop automation solutions deployable on the industrial edge as well as the cloud aimed at predictive maintenance, defect prediction, etc. employing various sensors such as vision, audio etc.","Battery manufacturing and processing"]
["Sandia National Laboratories","Kyle Fenton","1515 Eubank SE Albuquerque, NM 87123","krfento@sandia.gov","(505) 284-3377","FFRDC (Federally Funded Research and Development Center) ","Battery Safety","Website: https://energy.sandia.gov/programs/sustainable-transportation/vehicle-technologies/electric-vehicles/                                   Battery safety is a critical factor to battery technology’s widespread adoption in the electric vehicle marketplace. Sandia has decades of experience in applied materials R&D, systems engineering, and abuse testing to assist industry in implementing advanced, science-based safety features. Sandia’s goal is a science-based understanding of electrochemical atomic/molecular processes that is connected with the macroscopic response of packaged batteries to mitigate safety concerns, extend battery lifetimes, and increase battery efficiency through three coordinated thrusts:\n•\tLarge-scale battery testing to measure critical thermochemical and thermophysical response phenomena that can provide detectable signatures of end-of-life degradation mechanisms,\n•\tIn-situ nano-scale characterization to gain an atomistic understanding of these mechanisms, and\n•\tMulti-scale modeling, building predictive models linking atomistic processes with macroscopic responses.\nThe Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab) at Sandia is an internationally recognized leader in energy storage system safety research. The BATLab is also home to the world’s largest and most comprehensive battery calorimetry laboratory, the DOE’s largest lithium-ion cell prototyping facility, battery component analytical and diagnostic capabilities, and extensive failure-analysis and characterization tools."]
["NextGen Battery Technologies, LLC","Michael Booth, NextGen CEO","1901 N. Moore Street, Suite 1200, Suite 1200, Arlington, VA 22209"," ","770-296-7941","Small Business","Battery materials development and production - NextGen has a low-cost high-voltage, high energy density cell compatible with a lithium anode that employs our cobalt-free cathode and flexible composite solid-state electrolyte that is agnostic to battery form factor or manufacturing technique.  ",null,"Our area of interest is to secure funding for a domestic manufacturing facility for our cathode and solid-state electrolyte materials"]
["6K Inc.","Mary Cronin","25 Commerce Way, Suite 1, North Andover, MA 01845","mcronin@6kinc.com","978-857-4128","Manufacturer","Lithium-Ion battery materials (cathode and anode) producer","6K Energy has developed a unique process to produce a range of battery material for EVs, grid storage and consumer electronics. The current process for battery material manufacturing is coprecipitation which generates large amounts of pollutants, consumes huge amounts of water, and uses energy-intensive processes that take 2-3 days for production. By contrast, the UniMelt technology produces material in hours and produces zero hazardous waste, reduces water usage by 90%, and reduces power usage by 70%.  In addition to these significant sustainability benefits, 6K is able to produce battery materials with a 50% reduction in conversion costs.","6K Energy has developed a unique process to produce a range of battery material for EVs, grid storage and consumer electronics. The current process for battery material manufacturing is coprecipitation which generates large amounts of pollutants, consumes huge amounts of water, and uses energy-intensive processes that take 2-3 days for production. By contrast, the UniMelt technology produces material in hours and produces zero hazardous waste, reduces water usage by 90%, and reduces power usage by 70%.  In addition to these significant sustainability benefits, 6K is able to produce battery materials with a 50% reduction in conversion costs."]
["Soelect Inc.","Taehee Han","4355 Federal Drive Ste 140, Greensboro, NC 27410","taehee.han@soelect.com ","336-500-8686","Advanced Battery Component Manufacturing","Lithium metal anode and solid state electrolyte membrane production","Soelect is a leading developer on Lithium metal anode for both liquid and solid electrolyte targeting quick charge and high energy battery system. We have unique Lithium metal processing technology designed for rechargeable battery anode and manufacture high performance battery components to power the next generation of electric vehicles and consumer electronics.","AOI 6 & 10"]
["Nanotech Energy","Curtis Collar ","311 Otterson Dr., Chico, CA 95928","ccollar@nanotechenergy.com",null,"Small Business","Battery Manufacturing; Graphene Manufacturing; Graphene Product Applications; Energy Storage; Battery Safety; Energy Storage","Nanotech Energy’s is a developer of graphene products intended to commercialize graphene-based energy storage to the marketplace. The company offers graphene products that have the potential to revolutionize lives with applications in batteries, transparent conducting electrodes, conductive inks, printed electronics, conductive epoxy, antistatic coatings, and EMI (electromagnetic interference) shielding, enabling clients to charge devices in just a fraction of the time with an energy storage system that runs three times longer than traditional batteries. Nanotech Energy recently announced a new 517-acre Nanotechnology-Powered Battery Manufacturing Campus in Reno, Nevada that will include multiple building manufacturing facilities slated for Q4 2022.  ","AOIs 6 – 12 "]
["VRB Energy ","Jim Stover","72A Juniper Ridge, Shelburne, VT 05482"," jim.stover@vrbenergy.com","315-243-5866","Battery Manufacturer","Design and manufacture of advanced vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB) which are ideal to meet the daily cycling needs required for grid integration of large-scale solar PV and wind farms.","VRB Energy has an extensive technology portfolio and currently manufactures its Gen3 VRB-ESS® Power Modules and Electrolyte overseas. This portfolio includes technology for extraction of vanadium from petrochemical and other waste materials for conversion into electrolyte for use in VRB-ESS®. The company has preliminary designs for processing and manufacturing facilities that can be constructed in the US on an expedited schedule.","Seeking partners for vanadium waste processing from petrochemical materials as well as establishment of a ‘gigafactory’ in the US for battery and electrolyte manufacturing."]
["SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory","John D. Baniecki","2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025","jbanieck@slac.stanford.edu","650-926-3990","FFRDC","Flash thermal processing, HiTp in situ synchrotron x-ray scattering","Supported by EERE/AMO, SLAC is developing a high-throughput (HiTp) flash thermal processing (FTP) tool for in situ visualization using time resolved synchrotron x-ray scattering enabling the formation of structural phases, and nano-scale chemical and structural defects, to be characterized during the flash thermal process. FTP is a method that uses intense pulses of light on millisecond time scales to deliver targeted energy for crystallization or curing of electrodes and materials across a range of technologies. ","12–Domestic Cell and Component Manufacturing Demonstration "]
["LiNiCo Corporation","Leo Riera, President","2500 Peru Dr., Sparks, Nevada, 89434","leoriera@linicocorp.com","561-843-0843","Private Company","ELECTRIFICATION PRODUCTS, Reducing Reliance on Fossil Fuels via Recycled Battery Products: crush, separate, and condition every class of lithium-ion battery feedstock together with their host devices and other electrification materials.","Advancing innovations on extraction of lithium immediately after crushing and conditioning to maximize recovery for reuse in electrification products and highly concentrated ‘black mass’ without impurities, to maximize recovery and reuse of cobalt, nickel, copper, gold, and silver.","(Potential over life of project(s): \n1: Recycling Processing and Reintegration into the Battery Supply Chain.\n2: Commercial-scale Production Plants for Domestic Separation of Critical Materials from Domestic Feedstocks.\n3: Demonstrations of Domestic Separation and Production of Battery-grade Materials from Unconventional Domestic Sources\n4: Demonstrations of Innovative Separation Processing of Battery Materials "]
["Ampcera Inc.","Hui Du","3440 E Britannia Dr. Tucson AZ, 85706 Suite 190","hdu@ampcera.com","516-606-1072","Small Business ","Scaled manufacturing of solid-state electrolytes and related battery materials for advanced lithium batteries.","Ampcera is a global leader in the development and commercialization of solid electrolytes and other related battery materials for advanced lithium batteries. We have multiple production lines for sulfide-, oxide-, and halide-based solid-state electrolytes and other battery materials to meet the growing demands in the U.S. supply chain for advanced lithium batteries manufacturing. Our R&D facility has a wide variety of instruments for materials characterization and a battery testing lab with over 500 channels designated for solid-state and other advanced battery technologies. We are looking to partner with one or more entities that have interest in advanced battery technologies and will use this funding opportunity to expand our production facility to meet the growing U.S. market demand for solid electrolytes as well as other related advanced battery materials.","all"]
["HELA Novel Metals, LLC","Dr. Henry Wells Kasaini","150 New Boston Street, Unit A, Woburn, Massachusetts, 01801","  henry.k@hlnovelmetals.com","781-537-6947","Private Firm, LLC","Production of pre-alloyed or individual metallic micro-powders required to manufacture EV anodes and cathodes. ","HELA Novel Metals has developed a low-cost, efficient, and scalable technology that converts mixed metal salt feedstock into metallic micro-powders (pre-alloyed or individual) in a single step.  These metallic micro-powders include the following: \nLi- MNC (LiMnNiCoO2) (< 5 um), \nLiCo (< 10 um), \nY (< 3 um), \nYCu,\nLa,\nLaNi,\nNd, \nCo (< 1 um), \nNi  (< 3 um), \nPr, \nREE -NiCoCu-Y (< 5 um ).  \nCapacity is 2-10 tpm and easily scalable to any production need.","#10 - Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Component Manufacturing Open Topic"]
["Custom Electronics, Inc.","Carol Brower","87 Browne Street\nOneonta, NY 13820","cbrower@customelec.com","607-432-3880 Ext. 227","Small Business","Lithium Battery electrode, cell manufacturing, \nElectrochemistry, testing, Energy storage systems,\nAdvanced power and electronics systems","Lithium Battery electrode and cell manufacturing including lab to pilot scale.\nElectrochemistry development and testing. Energy storage system design and production.\nAdvanced power and electronics system design and assembly. ","1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10"]
["Stat Peel Inc.","Russell O’Brien","10249 South 2165 East, Sandy, Utah 84092","russell.obrien@statpeel.com","801.432.8357","Small business","Aerosol particle monitoring, workplace health and safety equipment and service","We make a material-selective aerosol detection system to protect people and facilities from potential contamination by monitoring employee exposure to airborne particles. Each system is sold as a package of one reader, ten wearable badges and filtration slides. Analysis is done automatically on-site so data remains in-house. The system was first designed to monitor CNTs and graphene. Now it is also capable of detecting different types of metal oxides, polymer particles  and other advanced materials.","all"]
["University of California San Diego","Mike Ferry, Director of Energy Storage Programs","9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0417, La Jolla, CA  92093","mdferry@ucsd.edu","510-305-2944","University, Academic Research","Large-format cell and battery module laboratory testing and analytics, battery energy storage system testing and field demonstrations","The University of California San Diego hosts engineering and laboratory resources for large-format cell and battery module testing and analytics, ranging from small bench testing capabilities up to MW-scale outdoor installations.","10, 11, 12"]
["Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory","Noel Bakhti, Executive Director","1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley , CA - 94720","noel@lbl.gov",null,"National Laboratory/FFRDC","● Electrochemical storage\n● Material and cell characterization, diagnostics\n● AI/ML\n● TEA/LCA\n● Simulation","● State of the art research facilities and cutting\nedge fundamental science on energy storage\nmaterials and processes\n● Discovery and development of new\ntechnologies for sustainable energy storage\n● Rapid transfer of new technologies to market\nthrough manufacturing innovation, accelerator\nprograms and tech-to-market efforts\n● System integration analysis: energy storage\nand the next-generation grid","AOI 4"]
["Resilient Power Systems (RPS)","Josh Keister","4500 Williams Dr, STE 212 -193, Georgetown, TX 78633","support@resilientpowersystems.com","512.850.4889","Small Business","Solid state energy solutions for optimized power storage and charging","RPS' patented solid-state power substation (SSPS) system replaces large conventional 60Hz transformers, fuses, switchgear, rectifiers, solar inverters, and energy storage systems with a single outdoor container that is one-tenth the size of current market competitors while improving technical performance and price. SSPS systems can optimize the entire renewable power supply chain from power capture (solar) to transmission (grid) and storage (batteries). Resilient Power will deliver a high-power, ultra-durable EV charger infrastructure while increasing energy security and reducing outages. RPS’ bidirectional battery charging turns every electric vehicle (EV) or stationary battery charger into a potential microgrid up to 8000 kW in power, while still reducing the system size and soft costs by 10X. RPS is backed by industry leading investors, including Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund.","AOI 10"]
["Foundation Alloy","Jake Guglin","501 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139"," jake@foundationalloy.com","203-435-8562","Small Business","Advanced Battery Materials and ManufacturingFoundation Alloy has developed a new class of nanostructured alloys specifically engineered for 3D printing and sintering. These novel materials have superior mechanical properties, including specific strength, thermal stability, and damage resistance, and are simpler to process, than existing State of the Art alloys. Foundation’s new class of high-performance materials are spun out of over two decades of MIT research and were co-developed with NASA stakeholders at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Foundation’s proprietary alloys present an opportunity to reduce the weight of manufactured components, increase performance, and reduce supply chain burdens, creating a compounded unique value proposition. Demonstrating 3x+ improved part performance, 90% faster production, and a scalable model to meet any level of demand, Foundation will support the necessary future objectives of the advanced battery material and manufacturing industry.","Foundation Alloy has developed a new class of nanostructured alloys specifically engineered for 3D printing and sintering. These novel materials have superior mechanical properties, including specific strength, thermal stability, and damage resistance, and are simpler to process, than existing State of the Art alloys. Foundation’s new class of high-performance materials are spun out of over two decades of MIT research and were co-developed with NASA stakeholders at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Foundation’s proprietary alloys present an opportunity to reduce the weight of manufactured components, increase performance, and reduce supply chain burdens, creating a compounded unique value proposition. Demonstrating 3x+ improved part performance, 90% faster production, and a scalable model to meet any level of demand, Foundation will support the necessary future objectives of the advanced battery material and manufacturing industry.","AOI 10"]
["Asbury Carbons","Noah Nichelson","405 Old Main St, Asbury NJ 08802","nnichelson@asbury.com","908 537 2155 ","Advanced Material Processor, Carbon Focus","All forms of carbon micronization.  126 years of application experience with natural flake graphite (amorphous, flake, expandable, high purity), synthetic graphite (primary and secondary) and cokes (sponge, needle, green).  World class lab with focus on critical material properties for application of carbon into end use.  Now offering Edge Functionalized Graphene (EFG) through acquisition of Garmor Tech including Graphene Oxide.  The world’s most cost effective, ESG friendly functionalized graphene commercially available today. Functionalization can be customized to meet application end use needs. \n","With 126 years of experience Asbury is North America’s largest processor of synthetic and flake graphite raw materials. Asbury has 13 processing facilities including locations in Mexico, Canada and Europe. Asbury has full functionality to provide “tightly sized” materials down d50 of 1mircometer in large volume in both North America and Europe. Asbury can further customize materials through blending operations to fit your application needs.   Through the acquisition of Garmor Tech in 2021 Asbury is commercializing edge functionalized graphene (EFG) in our facility in North Carolina where we will be capable of producing up to 300MT of EFG materials by H2 2023, these materials show excellent promise as conductivity aids in battery applications vs. competitive high cost CNT materials.  Asbury will have pilot “shaping” capacity available for toll work in late 2022 at our facility in Maastricht, Netherlands.","Collaboration in the anode or cathode value chain of all types. We are open to exploring partnership and JV’s for anode or cathode production with entities that bring complimentary portions of the value stream.  We are further very happy to work with entities interested in toll micronizing work or Asbury supplied micronized material.  Toll shaping capacity will be available in our European facility in late 2023.  Our EFG material is an excellent candidate to improve both anode and cathode properties we would very much like to develop a partnership for further exploration of EFG materials in the LiB space."]
["Eskra Technical Products, Inc.","Mike Eskra","560 Technology Way Suite 7, Saukville, WI 53080","mikeeskra@aol.com","262 707 5855","DE C-Corp Small Business\n","Solvent Free Dry Electrode Manufacturing Process Patented","Battery processing, battery development and testing, battery management design","Looking for teaming partners to help us commercialize our dry process that should provide long term cost savings of greater than 30% due to the elimination of solvent casting."]
["Swenson Technology, Inc.","Erick Neuman","26000 S. Whiting Way, Monee, IL 20448-8060","Eneuman@SwensonTechnology.com","708-587-2300","Separation technology provider with extensive experience in chemical and mineral separation and purification.  Privately-held Delaware corporation.","Swenson is a leader in the purification of the strategic and critical materials that require evaporation and crystallization and has the personnel and experience to provide process development and innovation to support production and purification of lithium from conventional and non-conventional mineral sources.","Swenson is a US manufacturer of evaporation and crystallization processing equipment that is essential to the recovery and production of the strategic and critical materials and has over a century of experience supporting the US industries.  Swenson leverages decades of supplying lithium crystallization process equipment expertise and its world-class testing and demonstration laboratory to design refining systems that meet the unique demands of each lithium source and battery production purity requirements. As a result, Swenson lithium refining crystallizers enable our clients to:\n\n- Maximize recovery of high purity, battery-grade lithium products\n- Effectively and efficiently remove contaminants\n- Reduce costs by improving process efficiency","1, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12"]
["Ateios Systems","Carlos Munoz","7970 S Energy Dr, Newberry, IN 47449","government@ateios.com ",6268252700,"Small Business ","Electrode processing Using Radiation Based Curing","Cell manufacturing center supporting multiple cell formats, all within a <1% RH dry lab. Industry expertise in cell manufacturing process validation, cell chemistry evaluation and design, and battery material development with analysis. We also have over 300 cell cyclers with EIS capabilities and temperature chambers to form and test.","Demonstration projects for advanced battery component manufacturing advanced battery manufacturing and recycling\nNew commercial-scale advance battery component manufacturing, advanced battery manufacturing, or recycling facilities in the Unites States"]
["Elemental Recycling","Ian Bishop","11603 A Brittmoore Park Dr, Houston TX 77055","ian@elementalrecycling.com","713.562.6616","Small Business","Graphite/graphene production, Rare earth elements recovery","ER has a single step process that recycles plastics into high purity(+99.9%) spherical graphite and graphene and hydrogen. The particle size ranges from .9 – 3.7 microns. The process is CO2e neutral and produces zero waste. The process is plastic agnostic and can handle mixed and contaminated feedstock. A unit the size of a large SUV can produce 40,000 lbs/day of graphite/graphene. This same process can also be used to harvest REE from electronics.","All"]
["Arkema Inc.              ","Mickael Havel, Business Development Director, High Performance Polymers – Arkema Inc.","900 1st Avenue, King of Prussia, PA  19406"," mickael.havel@arkema.com","610-878-6948","Company","Manufacturer of specialty battery materials, including binder and separator coatings.          ","Manufacturer of Kynar® PVDF polyvinylidene fluoride resins (PVDF) that are an optimized range of materials for lithium-ion batteries. These polymers can be used as binder and separator coatings.","AOI 3, 10; supplier for AOI 6, AOI 8."]
["Washington Clean Energy Testbeds","Michael Pomfret","4625 Union Bay Place NE, Seattle, WA 98105","mpomfret@uw.edu","206-685-6833","Non-Profit Research Institute, Academic","Materials processing & characterization, advanced manufacturing, battery & device testing","Additive manufacturing (printing, coating, 3D printing) with supporting materials processing and analysis; controlled environments for testing and processing; battery testing from coin cells to packs, hardware-in-the-loop testing for simulated deployments; coin cell fabrication; pouch cell fabrication facility to open in 2023. www.wcet.washington.edu ","Area of Interest: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10"]
["ACS Industries, Inc.","Ryan Abranovic",null,null,"401-229-2580","Large Business","Battery expertise in anode supports and flame arrestors","High volume manufacturing with expertise in stamping, annealing, sintering, diffusion bonding, expanding, perforating, drawing, knitting, and weaving of a wide range of metal alloys.","Area of Interest: Topics 6,7,10,12."]
["Saratoga Energy Corporation","Niklas Mundhenk","1301 S. 46th Street Bldg. 478 Richmond, CA 94804 ","niklas@saratoga-energy.com",5105704510,"Small business","Synthesis of battery-grade graphite, carbon nanotubes, carbon microfibers, and amorphous carbon from CO2 feedstock using a molten carbonate electrolysis process. ","Custom tailored carbon product synthesis","2, 4, 9, 12"]
["Jan Naidu",null,"4307 W. alabama St,  suite 2,   Houston, TX 77027","jan.naidu@revoltbatterytechnology.com"," (903) 883 7955","For-profit (small business)","High yield LIB Recycling, material extraction & reintegration into supply chain.","ReVolt has developed a low-cost and scalable technology that incorporates a blend of metallurgical processes  to recover\ncritical battery materials from production scrap & EOL batteries, into high energy dense cathodes for lithium-ion batteries. Based out of the University of Houston - Innovation Center we have built a multi vendor network for LIB feedstock.","1,3,5,11"]
["Nanoramic Laboratories ","Mitch Koffel","7 Audubon Rd. Wakefield MA  01880","mitch@nanoramic.com","1 (857) 403-6031","Delaware Corporation","Electrode and Cell Technology Development","Revolutionary technology that provides better performance in energy density, fast charging, and cycle life, while reducing battery cost up to 25%. https://www.nanoramic.com/","Main focus on Areas of Interest (AOIs) #12 and #6. Could support AOIs #7, #8, and #9. "]
["Saint Gobain","Steve Bottiglieri","1 New Bond Street, Worcester MA ","stephen.bottiglieri@saint-gobain.com","609-571-5586","Large Business","Proprietary Li absorbents for a range of Li extraction methodologies","High volume manufacturing enabled of internal proprietary Li absorbents and customized Li absorbent materials.","1, 3, 4"]
["Bren-Tronics, Inc.","Kyle Roelofs","10 Brayton Court, Commack, NY 11725","kroelofs@bren-tronics.com ","631-889-3386","Small Business, Manufacturer","Military Energy Storage.  Hybrid Power Systems.  Renewable Energy.","In business for almost 50 years exclusively in DoD power and energy field.  Designer and manufacturer (NY State) of all standard military batteries including soldier worn, vehicle, robots, sensors, weapons systems, lasers, etc.  Energy from 10 Wh’s to 1,000’s of Wh’s.","AOI 10"]
["Saueressig (division within Matthews International Corporation)","Brandon Babe","2 North Shore Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212","bbabe@matw.com","267-473-5750","Corporation (large business)","Electrode calendaring and lamination equipment","Saueressig, a division within Matthews International designs, fabricates and installs high speed rotary processing equipment. For the battery industry, we provide customized electrode manufacturing lines, from lab to mass production scale. Our capabilities and experience in manufacturing lines includes both the wet and dry process for electrode production.","Equipment Supplier for AOI 6,7, 9, 10, 12"]
["Phillips 66","Denay Huddleston","17591 State Hwy 123, Bartlesville, OK 74003","denay.huddleston@p66.com","918-977-2886","For-Profit","carbon, graphite, anode materials for lithium and sodium ion batteries, analytical testing and lab scale graphitization",null,"recycled anodes; recycled materials in next gen batteries"]
["GreenMet, Inc.","Emma Ernst","1069 Thomas Jefferson Street NW","eernst@greenmet.com","(202) 870-6822","Delaware Corporation","Critical mineral supply chains","Partners with state-of-the-art technology to separate and refine sustainable critical mineral feedstocks. Can provide safe, secure, and responsible mineral concentrates for offtake customers.\n•\tBattery Grade Lithium Carbonate\n•\tBromine\n•\tNickel (LME & powder)\n•\tCopper\n•\tCobalt\n•\tHeavy REEs","1, 3, 5, 11"]
["OnTo Technology, LLC","Steve Sloop","63221 Service RD STE F, Bend, OR 97703-6640","ssloop@onto-technology.com\t","541-389-7897","WOSB",null,"Battery deactivation, rendering cells and packs inert, harvesting electrode material, separation of electrode material, direct cathode recycling, battery disassembly, pre-commercial scale operations, permitted destination facility.","1-5, 11"]
["Innov’X","Noureddine HARRAR","Lot 660, Hay Moulay Rachid, Ben Guerir 43150 - Morocco","noureddine.harrar@innovx.ma ","212660006575 F69","Limited Company ","Iron Phosphate FePO4 (FP) precursor\nLithium Iron Phosphate LiFePO4 (LFP) based cathode\nApplied research and innovation in LFP batteries","Innov’X is the innovation engine affiliated with the University Mohammed 6 Polytechnic (UM6P). We seek to supply the Lithium-ion cell manufacturing industry with phosphates materials sustainably. We focus on delivering value through high-quality products and process innovation. \n\nThanks to our strong ties with OCP SA and with UM6P’s applied research capabilities, we aim to scale up our new innovative high-density/high-energy LiFePO4 (LFP). We also seek a leading position as a mass-producer and a global supplier of the Iron Phosphate FePO4 (FP) precursor. \n\nWe have also a keen interest in co-developing and co-investing in battery phosphate-based innovative technologies up to the commercialization phase.","AOIs of first interest 7, 12 \nOther AOIs of interest: all"]
["Enpower Greentech Inc","Sam Dai, Ph.D."," 75 E. Santa Clara Street, Suite 900, San Jose, CA 95113","sam.dai@enpowerus.com","916-220-6060","Corporation incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware ","Enpower Greentech Inc. is developing lithium metal anode based all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) technology, which is energy and power-dense, safe, and scalable for mass manufacturing. ASSBs debottleneck safety and performance challenges of Lithium-Ion Batteries (LIBs) and are thus crucial for disruptive adoptions to enable the mass-energy transition. ","Enpower Greentech’s lithium metal battery has demonstrated world-leading energy density (>500 Wh/kg >1150Wh/L) with outstanding cycling and safety performance. Enpower Greentech’s unique sulfide electrolyte technology provides the best-known ionic conductivity (10-2 S cm-1), cathode and anode compatibility, and scalable cell processing. Enpower Greentech’s ASSB prototype has demonstrated the world’s leading cell performances in charge-discharge rates (C rate: 10C, 6 mins), cycle life, and temperature ranges. ","Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Cell Manufacturing (target area 6, related to areas 10 & 12)"]
["Advanced Energy Materials, LLC","Ms. Vasanthi Sunkara",null," Vasanthi.sunkara@advancedenergymat.com",null,null,"Advanced Energy Materials, LLC (ADEM) has expertise in dry manufacturing capabilities for scale-up production of material powders for battery applications.","Advanced Energy Materials, LLC (ADEM) has developed various production methods for nanowire materials and mixed metal oxide powder that have been shown to be qualified for both anode and cathode materials. In the case of anode materials, ADEM has developed and scaled up production of tin oxide nanowire and lithium titanate nanowire and have qualified them with applications toward anodes.  In the case of cathode materials, ADEM has developed a dry manufacturing production process for various NMC powders (955, 811, 262 etc) and has the ability scale-up production to 250 Kg/day per reactor scale.","ADEM would like to team up with other partners to commercialize the dry manufacturing technology by setting up production plant for powders in Kentucky region and supply to various cell manufacturers."]
["Borman Specialty Materials (EMD Acquisition LLC)","William J. Golden","560 W. Lake Mead Parkway, Henderson NV 89015","wjgolden@bormansm.com","702-651-2308","Nevada limited liability company","Electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD), Lithium manganese oxide (LMO), Cobalt-free and nickel-doped cathode materials such as LMNO, recycling/reclamation of battery grade materials","Borman is the largest battery grade EMD producer in North America.  Borman currently produces 25,000 Metric tons of manganese-based cathode material each year, including but not limited to, EMD, Lithiated EMD, high purity LMO and LMNO.  Borman's research and development team is working on cobalt-free, high voltage cathode materials.  Borman holds several patents for the production of high purity LMO and LMNO.","1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12"]
["Stryten Energy Inc.","Steve Carkner","Alpharetta, GA","steve.carkner@stryten.com","613-286-2072","Corporation","Lead Acid, Vanadium Flow Redox (VRFB) and Lithium battery design and manufacturing","Stryten Energy has over 130 years of history building high quality lead acid batteries for automotive and material handling. Stryten has been actively expanding into advanced battery technologies and will be ramping up manufacturing of lithium and vanadium flow systems. We are interested in domestic cell suppliers, partnering for cell production and in supporting recycling and advanced cell chemistry demonstration","AOI 10 as Prime, other AOI as customer or partner"]
["Koppers Inc","Billy Cairns","1005 William Pitt Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15238","CairnsBJ@koppers.com","724-302-7100","Large Manufacture","Patented Low-impurity Coating Pitch","Innovative SPG coating materials and Synthetic Graphite Precursors including Si enhancements","2,3 4,6,9,12"]
["Electronic Recyclers International, Inc.","David Hirschler","7815 N. Palm Ave. Suite 140, Fresno, CA 93711","david.hirschler@eridirect.com","212-796-3211","For-profit","Large network of electronics and battery collection; electronics refurbish and recycling; various types of battery testing and sorting","ERI is the largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company in the United States. ERI is certified at the highest level by all leading environmental and data security oversight organizations to de-manufacture, recycle, and refurbish every type of electronic device in an environmentally responsible manner. ERI has the capacity to process more than a billion pounds of electronic waste annually at its eight certified locations, serving every zip code in the United States. ERI’s mission is to protect people, the planet and privacy.  For more information about e-waste recycling and ERI, call 1-800-ERI-DIRECT or visit https://eridirect.com.","Optimizing collection network and recycling processes and infrastructure – AOI 4 and AOI 11"]
["Golbe Specialty Metal","Bill Hightower","County Road 32, Beverly, OH, 45715","bill.hightower@ferroglobe.com","251-753-7878","Large business company","Production of high purity silicon powders for batteries. Production of silicon, microsilicon and nanosilicon. Refining of silicon up to 99,9999%. Recycling of silicon and silicon composites. ","Ferroglobe is one of the world’s largest producers of silicon metal and its alloys, and manganese alloys.  Ferroglobe counts amongst its clients the largest companies in chemical silicones, polysilicon, aluminium and steel. Four production plants in the US. 26 plants around the world. Our capabilities for Li-ion batteries allow us to produce high purity silicon powders for batteries. Ferroglobe works in this field with the main actors worldwide.","9 - Commercial-scale Domestic Next Generation Silicon Anode Active Materials and Electrodes; 10 - Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Component Manufacturing Open Topic; 11 - Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Recycling and End-of Life Infrastructure; 12 - Domestic Battery Cell and Component Manufacturing Demonstration Topic"]
["Evolve Renewable Materials  ","Mike Vogel, President & CEO","Knoxville, TN","mvogel@evolvematerials.com","1.650.402.1266  ","For Profit","Closed-loop LiB recycling systems, end-of-life lithium-ion battery recovery solutions, material extraction, lithium-ion battery feedstock","We operate in the middle and downstream segments of the battery supply chain. Our core business is to provide innovative clean technology solutions that recover, extract and alchemize the finite lithium battery metals found in end-of-life lithium batteries and to supply Grade-1 renewable battery metals and cathode precursor products back in to the battery supply chain.","End to end recycling from spent Li-Ion batteries into battery feedstock\nAOI 1, AOI 2, AOI 3, AOI 5, AOI 11."]
["Amphenol Themonetrics","Brian Engle","967 Windfall Rd., St. Marys, PA","brian.engle@amphenol-sensors.com","248-987-5736","Large Business","Sensor Technology, High voltage connections","Control and safety sensors, including gas-based thermal runaway, detection, temperature, pressure, and monitoring systems","AOI 10"]
["Teledyne Energy Systems, Inc.","Barbara Stachowiak","10707 Gilroy Road\nHunt Valley, MD 21031","barbara.stachowiak@teledyne.com","410-472-7785",null,"Teledyne Energy Systems, Inc. (TESI) is a leader in electrolytic, thermoelectric, battery, and fuel cell systems. TESI designs and manufactures custom rechargeable and primary cells and batteries, and has significant expertise in battery development and qualification for various defense and aerospace applications.","TESI has successfully qualified critical and high-value energy systems from initial concept, product development, and manufacturing through a control gate process approach. Our capabilities include cell and battery manufacturing, materials analysis and qualification, and battery testing. ","TESI is interested in collaborating with other partners to test and qualify new Li-Ion battery materials or components, develop advanced cell designs and manufacturing processes, and/or leading development projects for safer rechargeable batteries"]
["Pixelligent Technologies","Selina Monickam","6411 Beckley Street, Baltimore, MD 21224","sthomas@pixelligent.com","443-529-8310 x101","Research & Development; Manufacturing","Nanocrystals of metal oxides including zirconia, titania, ceria, niobium oxide, barium titanate and lithium titanate among others; nanocrystal-based core/shell structures; nanoparticle surface modification and dispersion; nanoparticle/polymer composite thin films.  Nanoparticles and nanocomposites in optical, electronic and energy applications.","State-of-the-art R&D facilities for nanoparticle synthesis, characterization, surface modification, dispersion. Lab and pilot scale hydro- and Solvo-thermal reactors and processing equipment for nanoparticle R&D and production; Nanoparticle and nanoparticle/polymer composite thin films formulation and characterization. "," 3 and 4. "]
["4D Systems LLC","Jean-Pierre Rasaiah","4130 Market Pl, Flint, MI 48507","jp.rasaiah@4dsysco.com","248 535 0758","8A, SDB, MBE Small Business,Cage Code: 6R9K1","Discrete Event, Robotic and Human Simulation\nRobotic System Integrator, Factory Flow, R&D\nSiemens and Dassault Software Partner","4D Systems is a certified robotic integrator and specializes in the creation of custom robotic work cells. With multiple layouts and solutions for many applications such as spot welding, material handling, sealing, painting, cutting, and thermal processing, manufacturers can work with 4D Systems engineers to design the perfect work cell for their production needs. 4D Systems has many years of robotic experience and we have developed applications through R&D when none have existed; we believe there are no robotic systems that we cannot work with. We work with our customers to provide innovative solutions to allow them to increase their efficiency which inturn improves productivity and profitability while giving them a competitive edge\nwithin the market. 4D Systems is a world leading provider of simulation services, software, hardware and professional services for the engineering community. 4D Systems is a Solutions Partner/Reseller of Siemens and Dassault Systems software products.\n4D Systems enables its customers to improve their competitiveness, productivity and profitability by delivering and maintaining value-added world-class process, workflow, asset management and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions.","1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12"]
["Superior Graphite Co.","Edward Carney","10 S. Riverside Plaza, Ste. 1470, Chicago, IL 60606"," ecarney@superiorgraphite.com","312.466.2867","Small business","Novel synthetic-based battery anode material","We have been active (research and commercial sales) in Energy Materials since 1998, and utilizing our proprietary, continuous, high temperature commercial furnaces, we are able graphitize and in situ coat a synthetic-based material suitable for Li-ion anode batteries. ","Area of Interest – 2 (Commercial-scale Domestic Production of Battery-Grade Graphite from Synthetic & Natural Feedstocks)."]
["Nanostar, Inc. (Operating as Advano)","Olivia Folger","2045 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, LA 70122","olivia.folger@gmail.com","(917) 827-1105","Small Business","Silicon technology development","Advano has developed a low-cost, scalable silicon anode technology to be used in lithium-ion batteries. This product has been produced at lab scale and has been validated by universities, vehicle manufacturers, and national laboratories to be the only method for producing battery-grade silicon to meet the volume and quality demands of the growing electric vehicle industry. ","9, 12"]
["Atlis Motor Vehicles, Inc. ","David Apps","1828 N Higley Rd. Suite #116. Mesa, AZ, 85205","davidapps@atlismotorvehicles.com","480-674-9027","Small business","Advanced Battery Technology, Battery manufacturing, Battery Pack manufacturing, 1.5 Megawatt Charging Technology and Infrastructure, Battery Materials Research and Development, Electric Drive, Steer by Wire, Brake by Wire, Automotive Ethernet Communication, EV chassis technology","ATLIS Motor Vehicles is changing the world! We are building solutions to electrify the medium and heavy-duty work truck market. One way we’re doing this is by designing, developing and manufacturing proprietary battery technology uniquely designed to meet the demands of those in the agriculture, construction, mining and fleet industries. We are developing capabilities to manufacture EV batteries and battery packs that will power work by meeting three key areas of concern for the work segment: ability to haul loads up to 35K lbs, range of 300-500 miles and a battery that charges in 15 mins or less.  In addition we are building an EV truck and an ecosystem to serve our target market. ","AOI 6 Domestic Battery Cell Manufacturing; AOI 7 Battery Cathode Manufacturing; AOI 10 Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Component Manufacturing Open Topic; AOI 11 Commercial-scale Domestic Battery Recycling and End-of Life Infrastructure;  AOI 12 Domestic Battery Cell and Component Manufacturing Demonstration Topic "]
["Ultralife Corporation ","Dr. Ron Wang ","2000 Technology Parkway NY 14513 ","rwang@ulbi.com ","315-359- 6213","Large Business ","Lithium Batteries","Cylindrical and Pouch Cell Assembly, Aqueous Coating, Lithium Metal Extrusion,  Dry Room Processing, Pack Assembly ","AOI6, AOI7, AIO10, AIO12 "]
["Blue Current Inc.","Ben Eiref, CEO","3906 Trust Way, Hayward, CA 94545 USA ","beiref@bluecurrent.com","650-906-7657","For Profit","US-based silicon elastic composite solid-state battery manufacturer","Blue Current is a US-based battery R&D and manufacturing company headquartered in the Bay Area. Our proprietary technology, the “silicone elastic composite battery,” consists of a dry solid-state battery with a high silicon content fabricated to increase energy density. We have designed our cells to be scalable using commercial off-the-shelf high-volume manufacturing equipment.",12]
["Sky Enterprises LLC","Ryan Ard","2300 Marsh Point Road, suite 301, Neptune Beach, FL 32266","Ryan@skyenterprises.com","904-684-6704","Small business","Supply and production of battery components and materials","Sky Enterprises is a privately held multi-national investment and finance company based out of Florida that operates internationally. Sky has the capabilities to supply and produce copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium battery materials and components.","1 & 10"]
["Titan Advanced Energy Solutions","Steven Africk","35 Congress Street\nSalem, Massachusetts 01970","steve@titanaes.com\n","617 699 1258","Small for-profit business","Ultrasonic characterization of storage devices such as lithium-ion batteries","Titan Advanced Energy Solutions combines ultrasound technology with the science of AI Algorithms to provide the most advanced method to rapidly measure battery State of Health, State of Charge, and safety diagnostics, in the world. The technology is applicable to used (second life) batteries, batteries cells that are being built (manufacturing end of line inspection), and batteries while in use.","We are seeking collaboration to incorporate Titan’s ultrasound technology under development to monitor battery fabrication on the factory floor. We see battery cell morphology, determine the initial cell capacity, and identify manufacturing anomalies that can impact cell lifetime performance. Our unique technology will create major value to battery production by\n•\tReal-time identification of manufacturing defects and variability\n•\tEarly intervention based of defects and dry zones\n•\tGrading cells based on capacity and predicted lifetime performance \n•\tMinimizing in-field warranty issues and potential reputational damage\n•\tYield optimization \n•\tIncreased rate of reaching high OEE\n•\tScrap interception\n•\trework\n•\tavoidance of passing scrap to the end"]
["Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory","Tony Van Buuren ","7000 East Ave, Livermore, CA 94550","vanbuuren1@llnl.gov ","925-423-5639","National Laboratory (FFRDC)","•\tAdditive manufacturing and laser processing of battery materials\n•\tCell fabrication & electrochemical testing\n•\tMaterials characterization \n•\tMultiscale modeling of energy storage materials","•\tBattery Assembly Facility (BAF) for fabrication and testing of coin cells and pouch cells\n•\tNovel battery manufacturing techniques, including additive manufacturing and laser processing\n•\tMultiscale modeling of energy storage materials; HPC4EnergyInnovation (HPC4EI) & High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC): work with industry partners, leveraging world-class computational resources to advance the national energy agenda\n•\tAdvanced Manufacturing Laboratory (AML): equipment for advanced/additive manufacturing (some of which is not yet commercially available) & advanced materials characterization  \n•\tLaboratory for Energy Applications for the Future (LEAF): a multidisciplinary center that accelerates the development of scalable, optimized structures at the intersection of porous materials, mass transport, and chemical reactions for energy applications ","All"]
["Applied Spectra, Inc.","Jong Yoo, CEO","Applied Spectra, Inc., 950 Riverside Pkwy Ste 90, West Sacramento, CA  95605","jyoo@appliedspectra.com\n","(916) 857-8761 (office)\n(408) 203-8789 (mobile)","Small Business","Materials & Chemical analysis technology that can be used for both offline laboratory analysis/QA and inline process control for battery manufacturing with a particular focus in the areas of anode/cathode materials and electrode manufacturing processes.","Applied Spectra manufactures analytical instruments utilizing LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) and LA-ICP-MS (Laser Ablation ICP Mass Spec) that provide ppb - %wt. sensitivity for all elements of interest in Li-Ion battery development including leading current and future material systems ranging from – NMC, LFP, NMP, emerging Si anode technology, etc.  LIBS, either alone or in tandem with LA-ICP-MS can help manufacturers improve material quality, yield and electrical performance by providing critical spatial and depth data on chemical composition, dispersion, and uniformity, which can be correlated to electrical test and performance.  The Applied Spectra sensor technology can be implemented inline for real-time analysis during production with closed loop process control and for offline laboratory FA/QA/characterization applications.\nWe are seeking to team with applicants intending to implement commercial scale production for critical materials (AOI #’s 1-5) as well as applicants who plan to build commercial scale manufacturing and recycling of advanced battery components (AOI #’s 6-12) to develop metrology applications and use-cases to quantitatively and qualitatively improve raw material, component and finished battery quality, yield and performance across the advanced battery manufacturing supply chain.","1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12"]
["LISUS Technologies Inc. ","Oscar Neyra","Viterbi Startup Garage c/o LISUS Technologies Inc. 4676 Admiralty Way Suite 503. Marina del Rey, CA 90292","partnerships@lisusenergy.com","323-943-0094","Minority Owned Small Business.","Mineral Exploration and traceability of cathode materials to prevent environmental and social impact. Justice40 Initiative.","LISUS is a Justice 40, minority owned small business that uses remotely sensed data and AI to identify areas with high concentration of minerals. We are a strategic partner bringing value to Criterion 5, (Equity Plan).  We have two tools that could enhance the social impact of a strategic partner:\n•\tAlchemist.- A data architecture that helps mining partners decrease the water intensity of their operations, and decrease the impact to underserved communities.\n•\tTrace.- A traceability architecture to help battery manufacturers, prevent the use of materials produced trough child labor, and damaging environmental practices.","3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10,11, 12. Diversity, and Justice 40 Initiative"]
["International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Union (SMART)","Tiffany Finck-Haynes ","1750 New York Avenue, Suite 600, Washington DC 20006","tfinck-haynes@smart-union.org ","202-717-1945","Construction union","Architectural sheet metal, HVAC installation, repair and assessment, HVAC fabrication, roofing and indoor air quality and energy efficiency. ","HVAC assessment, repair, fabrication and installation in existing and new facilities, building systems commissioning, sound and vibration testing, fire life safety control systems, system design and project management or facility management. ","Partnering on retrofits of existing facilities or construction of new facilities."]