HPQ Silicon Inc., a technology company specializing in green engineering of silica and silicon-based materials has announced the latest significant battery milestones achieved by its France-based affiliate, NOVACIUM SAS (“Novacium”).
This announcement involves the latest batch of batteries, made with a blend of graphite and Novacium’s partially optimized third-generation (GEN3) advanced silicon-based anode material, has surpassed the average capacity of 4,030 milliampere-hours (mAh) [1]. This result is close to the actual world record for 18650 batteries of 4,095 mAh [2]. However, validation by a third party will be necessary before that title is fully claimed.
“As we expected, 18650 batteries made with our GEN3 materials exceeded 4,000 mAh, making Novacium one of only three companies in the world that have published 18650 batteries capacities results greater than 4,000 mAh [3],” said Dr. Jed Kraiem, Ph.D., COO of Novacium. “Based on the data gained to date, we strongly believe that we can continue improving our material so that a GEN4 material based 18650 batteries could exceed the 4,300 mAh mark.”
