Sakuu, the commercial-scale printing and battery technology company, has won a World Changing Ideas award from the business media outlet Fast Company for its Kavian Dry electrode printing process.
The award was given because its electrodes are said to have a lower environmental impact than those produced by the traditional wet coating method.
The company said its all-in-one process has been used to produce a complete lithium-ion battery electrode with less than half of the factory footprint.
Cathodes and anodes of various chemistries are said to have been successfully printed, including NCM, NCA, LFP, graphite and silicon-graphite on a current collector foil.
The flexibility of its method is said to allow for new chemistries such as sodium-ion and aluminium-ion.
The company has validated the performance of its dry printed electrodes and said that the electrodes perform equal to, or better than, traditionally wet-coated electrodes.
It also claims that it has reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 55% and reduced its capital equipment costs by 20%.
The world-changing ideas award was selected by a panel of editors and reporters from Fast Company, which involved 100 projects being chosen from 1500 entries.
Robert Bagheri, founder and CEO, Sakuu, said: “It’s a great honour to have Fast Company recognise our dry electrode printing process as a World Changing Idea. This award further validates the effectiveness of our Kavian Platform for enabling battery cell producers and OEMs to scale up production to support the growth, sustainability, and efficiency demands of the future.”
Image: Sakuu’s Kavian manufacturing platform for dry printing electrodes has a significantly smaller footprint than traditional wet manufacturing setups. Source: Sakuu.
