What We Do

To meet the challenge of today’s road warrior, makers of mobile electronics want energy storage solutions that deliver maximum battery capacity from ever smaller and lighter form factors. The pace of improvement in battery capacity is now falling behind the demands of our electronic applications, and new generations of optimized batteries will require new architected material solutions. Battery designers have long known that silicon can greatly increase the anode capacity in lithium ion batteries, far beyond that of today’s materials. Unfortunately, the use of silicon in batteries has been thwarted due to the inherent volumetric expansion that silicon undergoes during the lithiation/delithiation cycle.

Now there is a way to deliver the capacity improvement benefits from silicon in lithium ion batteries without the problems. The Nanosys SiNANOde™ additive, architected from a silicon composite, manages volumetric changes, cycle after cycle, and mitigates the problems historically associated with using silicon in lithium ion battery anodes.

Nanosys’ architected materials increase the capacity of lithium ion batteries with its novel anode composite, maintaining standard coulombic efficiency, improving energy and power density, while providing the stability and safety of existing solutions.

Since battery capacities typically increase on the order of six percent per year across the industry, process-ready components like SiNANOde™ can accelerate technology improvement for a competitive advantage. Architected materials integrate easily and affordably on a mass scale with existing battery manufacturing processes, allowing cell makers to double capacity in a single step.

Nanosys is working in collaboration with the world’s leading lithium-ion battery manufacturers to deliver unprecedented energy performance in new products. Rechargeable batteries are just the beginning. Advancements in energy storage that start in consumer electronics are already paving the way to new applications in everything from electric and hybrid vehicles to fuel cells and alternative energy storage.