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Porous Power Signs $1.41 Million Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Commercialize a New Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturing Process

"This dramatically alters the cost equation and paves the way for mass production of more affordable lithium-ion car batteries," explains Tim Feaver, Porous Power's CEO. "This project with Oak Ridge will accelerate the development of the patent-pending SYMMETRIX production process and confirm the safest, most cost-effective materials to use in these batteries."

As the U.S. Department of Energy's largest science and energy laboratory, ORNL selected this project, in part, because it answers all four of the key technology barriers cited in the DOE Vehicle Technologies Program 2008 Annual Progress Report: cost, performance, abuse tolerance and battery life. "The auto industry is looking for an entirely new way to produce high-performance lithium-ion cells with superb safety characteristics and a much lower cost than today's batteries," says ORNL scientist David L. Wood, III, Ph.D.

Porous Power's SYMMETRIX production process eliminates one of the most expensive battery components, free-standing separator membranes, by coating SYMMETRIX separator film directly on to electrodes. In addition to reducing overall battery cost, this film can...

• Extend the life and high-power capacity of lithium-ion batteries.
• Minimize heat generation in batteries so more energy is available for application use, which enables the batteries to operate at a safer, cooler temperature.
• Allow batteries to charge 50% faster than equivalent batteries with traditional separators.

For more information on this cooperative research and development agreement or the SYMMETRIX production process, contact Bernie Perry at 720-890-4888 or bperry@porouspower.com. To reach Oak Ridge National Laboratory, call or email Kathy Graham: 865-946-1861 or grahamkj@ornl.gov.

Porous Power Technologies, LLC (www.porouspower.com) specializes in making energy portable-by harnessing energy from any source (oil, coal, nuclear, wave, solar, wind, etc.) into long-lasting, cost-effective, high performance batteries for electric vehicles and other applications.

Porous Power Technologies, LLC
Bernie Perry, 720-890-4888
bperry@porouspower.com