AN ELEMENTAL APPROACH TO BETTER BATTERY MATERIALS
AN ELEMENTAL APPROACH TO BETTER BATTERY MATERIALS
Founded to enable the electrification of everything—from tiny medical, consumer and commercial devices to every possible flavor and size of transportation—Group14 brings new finely-tuned performance capabilities to the era of the lithium-silicon battery. Our novel composite materials and our industrial process to make them reliably answer the cost, scale and performance barriers that have slowed the world’s transition towards the all-electric future.
Founded to enable the electrification of everything—from tiny medical, consumer and commercial devices to every possible flavor and size of transportation—Group14 brings new finely-tuned performance capabilities to the era of the lithium-silicon battery. Our novel composite materials and our industrial process to make them reliably answer the cost, scale and performance barriers that have slowed the world’s transition towards the all-electric future.
SCC55™
Graphite has met its match
Graphite has met its match
SCC55™ has five times the capacity and affords up to 50% more energy density than conventional graphite for Lithium battery anodes. Its unique hard carbon-based scaffolding keeps silicon in the most ideal form – amorphous, nano-sized, and carbon-encased. The result is the best-in-class anode material that exhibits outstanding first cycle efficiency and long life upon Li-ion battery cycling.
SCC55™ has five times the capacity and affords up to 50% more energy density than conventional graphite for Lithium battery anodes. Its unique hard carbon-based scaffolding keeps silicon in the most ideal form – amorphous, nano-sized, and carbon-encased. The result is the best-in-class anode material that exhibits outstanding first cycle efficiency and long life upon Li-ion battery cycling.
Stable and flexible, SCC55™ delivers
Stable and flexible, SCC55™ delivers
Designed to shape the leading edge of what is possible with lithium-ion, our hard carbon-based scaffolding is a silicon-dominant composite, composed with amorphous, nano-sized silicon. Drop-in ready, SCC55™ consists of integrated intra-particle void space, with low surface area and is made with readily available, non-exotic, ultra-high purity materials.
Designed to shape the leading edge of what is possible with lithium-ion, our hard carbon-based scaffolding is a silicon-dominant composite, composed with amorphous, nano-sized silicon. Drop-in ready, SCC55™ consists of integrated intra-particle void space, with low surface area and is made with readily available, non-exotic, ultra-high purity materials.
THE LITHIUM-SILICON BATTERY AGE IS HERE
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Dryrolysis™
Dryrolysis™
Synthesizing porous hard carbon scaffold
Dryrolysis is both an incredibly efficient and environmentally friendly approach to synthesizing carbon to create the perfect carbon scaffold. Highly scalable, this novel approach removes the need for solvent by combining dry polymerization with thermal processing. This platform yields the ideal carbon scaffold for a silicon-carbon composite – ideal for retaining amorphous, nano-sized silicon. Importantly, Dryrolysis is accomplished in a single step and in a single reactor.
Dryrolysis is both an incredibly efficient and environmentally friendly approach to synthesizing carbon to create the perfect carbon scaffold. Highly scalable, this novel approach removes the need for solvent by combining dry polymerization with thermal processing. This platform yields the ideal carbon scaffold for a silicon-carbon composite – ideal for retaining amorphous, nano-sized silicon. Importantly, Dryrolysis is accomplished in a single step and in a single reactor.
Creating easily tunable amorphous silicon
Siligenesis is how we make the world’s best silicon anode material. Creating both silicon and tuned internal void spaces within the carbon scaffolding, this novel approach employs a non-exotic precursor that converts into silicon within the porous carbon scaffold. Beyond providing for the ideal form of silicon, Siligenesis also supports silicon's expansion and contraction within remaining intraparticle void spaces of the composite, further boosting electrochemical performance.
Siligenesis is how we make the world’s best silicon anode material. Creating both silicon and tuned internal void spaces within the carbon scaffolding, this novel approach employs a non-exotic precursor that converts into silicon within the porous carbon scaffold. Beyond providing for the ideal form of silicon, Siligenesis also supports silicon's expansion and contraction within remaining intraparticle void spaces of the composite, further boosting electrochemical performance.
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
ELECTRIC
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ELECTRIC VEHICLES
ELECTRIC
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CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
CONSUMER
ELECTRONICS
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
CONSUMER
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MEDICAL DEVICES
MEDICAL
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MEDICAL DEVICES
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AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
AEROSPACE
INDUSTRY
AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
AEROSPACE
INDUSTRY
While lithium-ion continues its reign as the global power source for the electrification era, the demands for new levels of performance - from yield to range to charge cycle - are also rising. Scaffold Prime™ was designed as the lithium-silicon solution to replace incumbent lithium-ion technologies with a highly efficient, industrial-scale approach that yields the ideal composites for any electrification use case. By simplifying the creation of the silicon-carbon composite down to two patented process steps, creating both carbon and silicon in single reactors, Scaffold Prime™ is shaping the leading edge of what is possible.
While lithium-ion continues its reign as the global power source for the electrification era, the demands for new levels of performance - from yield to range to charge cycle - are also rising. Scaffold Prime™ was designed as the lithium-silicon solution to replace incumbent lithium-ion technologies with a highly efficient, industrial-scale approach that yields the ideal composites for any electrification use case. By simplifying the creation of the silicon-carbon composite down to two patented process steps, creating both carbon and silicon in single reactors, Scaffold Prime™ is shaping the leading edge of what is possible.
Cracking Lithium-Ion’s Hurdles
Cracking Lithium-Ion’s Hurdles
We’re at the tipping point
Within the last decade, improvements to lithium-ion have only been incremental for the most common source of electric power while the range of devices and vehicles continues to rapidly expand. This rising tide of new performance expectations demands not only a step change in the novel battery chemistry approach to materials, but one that also factors in the necessity for non-exotic, industrial-scale drop-in solutions.
Within the last decade, improvements to lithium-ion have only been incremental for the most common source of electric power while the range of devices and vehicles continues to rapidly expand. This rising tide of new performance expectations demands not only a step change in the novel battery chemistry approach to materials, but one that also factors in the necessity for non-exotic, industrial-scale drop-in solutions.
Tunable Power for Any Application
Tunable Power for Any Application
Controlling cost & dialing up density
Scaffold Prime™ applies complex polymer chemistries to create silicon-carbon nanocomposites as anode materials that don’t require any change to current battery cell manufacturing. Our patented materials deliver the most optimal combination of high energy density, stability, fast-charging, and scalability while achieving the ideal electrochemical properties for any use case.
Scaffold Prime™ applies complex polymer chemistries to create silicon-carbon nanocomposites as anode materials that don’t require any change to current battery cell manufacturing. Our patented materials deliver the most optimal combination of high energy density, stability, fast-charging, and scalability while achieving the ideal electrochemical properties for any use case.
The lithium-silicon battery age is here
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