Shattering the Limitations In Battery Technology
Omega Power Technologies Corp. (OPT) is an innovative battery research and development company commercializing next-generation electrodes that will push both lithium-ion and lithium-metal battery technologies into their final frontier of energy density and power capabilities for broad scale use across various industries with a mission to promote a more sustainable and cleaner, green energy future.
Li-ion battery technology has progressed significantly over the last 30 years mainly due to progress with advancements in cathode components paired with a graphite anode, but the best Li-ion batteries today are nearing their performance limits utilizing traditional graphite anodes (360 mAh/g). Omega Power is out to shatter these limitations by utilizing the theoretical capacities of Lithium-Metal (3,860 mAh/g) and lithium-ion intercalated Silicon (4,200 mAh/g) to replace graphite and become the “power source” for power hungry applications in our 5G and EV expanding world. Omega Power’s world class research team has created revolutionary battery electrodes that replace graphite with a proprietary carbon nanotube (CNT) material called “NanoSponge™” (patent granted) – one of the only commercially viable and scalable three-dimensional (3D) CNT materials in the world. OPT holds the exclusive global licensing rights and intellectual property (IP) to utilize NanoSponge™ for all battery and supercapacitor field of use applications.
One of the great value propositions of their company profile, is their ability to create an assembly-line-ready, drop-in, spooled, copper foil electrode product called NanoSponge Electrode™ (PCT patent pending) to allow existing large-scale battery manufacturers to easily upgrade their lithium-ion battery production lines to safe, rechargeable lithium-metal battery (RLMB) technology providing up to 50% greater energy density all without having to make a multi-billion-dollar capital investment for re-tooling their process. Additional research projects will enable OPT to create a high-loading Silicon NanoSponge Electrode™ as a drop-in electrode product as well.
The unique properties of the NanoSponge Electrode™ technology make it possible to safely store lithium metal at high loading within its highly porous (99%) conductive framework of 3D CNTs and nano-scaled open pore volume, trapping it, to solve the known dendrite and extreme volume expansion problems of lithium metal anodes. Likewise, this same 3D CNT conductive highly porous framework can store large amounts of silicon (active anode material) for lithium-ion intercalation and will solve the brittle cracking problems and conductivity loss issues associated with silicon’s large volume expansion due to the lithium-ion intercalation. The nano-scaled 3D CNT porous framework acts as a mechanical constraint and maintains good electrically conductive contact during the expansion of silicon meanwhile keeping any cracked silicon fragments conductive (active) for many charge-discharge cycles within the Silicon NanoSponge Electrode™.
Unlike many of the solid-state competitors, OPT has a fast-path growth potential to leapfrog the competition by establishing itself within the current industry standard liquid electrolyte battery manufacturing design space for the many years to come, with its safety-first, anode-free, lithium-metal-absorbing NanoSponge Electrode™ product. For EV makers alone, this could mean as much as a 5-year step-up in the manufacturing timeline for transportation vehicles coming to market since they do not have to be dependent upon the slow ramp up due to the drastic capital-intensive manufacturing process changes needed for adopting novel solid-state battery designed concepts.
OPT together in conjunction with its strategic manufacturing partner CSS Nanotech Inc, along with battery build and testing partner Polaris Battery Labs and their Lithium-Ion Battery Processing Center, will work with industry leaders in the battery sector to provide coin cells and pouch cells of new battery Minimum Viable Prototypes (MVPs) to potential customers and OEMs, like Apple and Samsung, under 3-way NDA’s, along with various product segments including EVs, industrial ESS, medical devices, power tools, military gear, and consumer electronics markets like aerial drones, cell phones, laptops, and tablets, including the gaming and toy industries and the emerging “wearables” market.
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