NEO Battery Materials Ltd has announced the appointment of Yonsei University chemistry professor Byeong-Su Kim to the company's scientific advisory board.
Kim has expertise in researching polymer materials, with an emphasis on lithium-ion battery binder technologies, synthesis of functional polyethers and polymeric therapeutics, and smart hybrid nanomaterials.
“All components in terms of technology and intellectual capacity are being shaped out, and we are more than confident to commercialize NEO's Si Anode Materials through our proprietary one-pot nanocoating technology,“ NEO Battery Materials Spencer Huh said in a statement.
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“The company is ultimately targeting a pure 100% silicon anode for the use in high power electric vehicle applications; hence, we regard implementing excellent binder technologies as a crucial aspect in our materials,“ Huh added.
The company noted that Kim possesses more than 30 patents, which include robust binder technologies for lithium-ion battery electrodes.
NEO said the binder is an essential component when manufacturing silicon anodes as it holds the electrode material together with the copper current foil.
It added that utilizing robust binder technologies with characteristics such as a high elastic modulus can help contain and control the volume expansion of silicon, resulting in lower probabilities of particle pulverization and a cracking anode.
NEO Battery Materials is a Vancouver-based resource company focused on battery anode materials and technology development. The anode is one of the four key materials of the lithium-ion battery, and improvements in battery run-time and charge-time will be reached through anode material innovation.
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