Echion Technologies, part of the University of Cambridge, is currently looking to commercialise its lithium ion battery technology, based on innovation around the chemistry and nanostructure of such a battery’s active anode material.
The organisation has just been awarded second place in the Energy and Environment category at this year’s Emerging Technologies Competition by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), taking home a £10,000 award, financial mentoring, business coaching and support from companies around the world.
Managing director of Echion Jean de La Verpilliere said: “The RSC Emerging Technologies Competition is not only valuable to us from a financial point of view, but we hope to take full advantage of the intangible networking and business development opportunities and mentorship that the RSC offers winners of this competition.”
The university often does work involving battery technology and how improvements could potentially be made. In 2013, for example, researchers developed a sulphur and nanonstructured carbon composite that could be used as a battery cathode with higher energy storage at lower costs than traditional materials.
It was explained at the time that using sulphur in lithium-ion batteries could reduce production costs substantially, since raw cathode materials are the biggest material cost in battery production – making up between 35 and 40 per cent of the total costs.
And in 2015, the Department of Chemistry developed new technology for aprotic lithium air batteries, using a spongy graphene cathode. The battery they designed boasted efficiencies more than 90 per cent and ewer side reactions, capable of being charged and recharged for over 1,000 cycles.
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