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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"]
["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."]