Our flagship product, SCC55™, is a stable silicon-carbon composite material, which holds up to five times the capacity of graphite and affords up to 50% more energy density than conventional graphite for lithium-ion battery anodes. Its unique hard carbon-based scaffolding keeps silicon in the most ideal form: amorphous and nano-sized.
We optimized SCC55™ to be a drop-in-ready solution that can blend with or fully replace graphite in the anode, powering silicon batteries across a spectrum of applications and products. This advanced battery technology will not only help usher in the electric vehicle era — but also an array of improved technologies in consumer electronics, grid storage, aerospace, and other forms of mobility.
Video transcription: Group14’s CTO, Rick Costantino
SCC55™ is an elegant and stable combination of silicon and carbon that enables the next generation of lithium-silicon and solid-state batteries. Our material was designed to be easy to use, high performing, and manufactured at commercial scale.
SCC55™ is manufactured by a two-step process that we call Scaffold Prime™. And with this process, we’re able to produce our material, SCC55™, and scale it rapidly, which we do right here at our Battery Active Materials, or BAM factory, in Woodinville, Washington. Our material enables batteries — and the devices powered by those batteries — to last longer and charge faster.
If you look at the lithium-ion battery industry, there have been incremental improvements on the order of maybe a few percent per year, and that’s fantastic. But to get big improvements, you need many, many years. So with SCC55™, we can increase the energy density of the lithium-ion battery up to 50% and transform it into a lithium-silicon battery. So now, an improvement that would have taken decades, we can have that improvement today with SCC55™.
