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NOVEL “ENERGETIC” MATERIALS & LABORATORY EQUIPMENT FOR

PORTABLE BATTERIES ASSEMBLING

NATO-STCU Seminar “From Science to Business”

11-12 October 2006

KIEV

V. Z. Barsukov, V. G. Khomenko

+380 44 256 21 02

E-mail: chemi@mail.vtv.kiev.ua Kiev National University of Technologies and Design

KIEV, UKRAINE

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Talk outline

  

1. What is needed in the market?2. Brief technology description.3. Stage of development.4. Who needs it & how many will they need?5. What is my unique technology advantage?6. Competitive matrix.7. How will I beat the competition?8. Opportunity for joint work.

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Proprietary information statement

• The technology material presented in this talk is available for licensing or joint product development.

• None of the slides contain any confidential or proprietary information which would prevent patenting the technology.

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Market Need

Resently the global battery market is about $50 billion US. The growth is estimated at 6% annually through 2006.

The market deal with battery R&D equipments is in the range about $1 billion US.

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Problem Description

Today’s there is a huge discrepancy between research and commercial battery development. The main reason is that most research laboratories can not carry out electrochemical testing of their materials in full battery samples of industrial sizes.

About 1000 R&D centers and university need reliable, portable and low cost laboratory equipment to assemble battery samples of industrials size.

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Brief technology description

We have developed reliable, precise and relatively low cost sets of laboratory equipment and technology for making battery samples of standard industrial sizes.

Examples of coin and cylindrical batteries assembled using our laboratory equipments

2016 coin battery

2325 coin battery

Heavy duty MnO2/Zn

D size battery

Alkaline AA battery

Rechargeable AA battery

Cylindrical batteries

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Advantages

• Different promising materials for battery technologies could be tested in battery samples of some standard industrial sizes;

• Lab equipment and technologies allow to assemble coin cells of 2016 and 2325 sizes, cylindrical AA and D sizes for testing Lithium, Lithium-Ion, Lithium-Polymer and alkaline manganese dioxide batteries, as well as novel materials for these types of batteries.

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Type of battery Size Voltage, V

Capacity, mAh

Lithium-Ion battery 2016 4.2 10-15 Li/ MnO2 primary

battery 2016 3.4 110

Alkaline Zn/ MnO2 battery

2016 1.6 91

Li/ MnO2 primary battery

2325 3.4 226

Alkaline Zn/ MnO2 battery

2325 1.6 190-250

Type of battery

Size Voltage, V

Capacity, mAh

Alkaline Zn/ MnO2 battery

AA 1.6 2600

Carbon/Zinc battery

AA 1.6 760

Carbon/Zinc battery

D 1.6 5044

Characteristics of coin batteries attained in standard industrial sizes

Characteristic of cylindrical batteries attained in standard industrial sizes

Experimental results

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Stage of development

The Figures presented sampler of Lab equipmentKNUTD has developed unique sets of equipment and Lab. technology for assembling the following types of cylindrical batteries:

coin cells of 2016 and 2325 sizes;

cylindrical batteries of AA and D sizes.

The above equipments installed successfully by KNUTD in the R&D centre of Superior Graphite Co. USA. The equipment allow Superior Graphite Co. to provided novel energetic materials to the battery market.

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Targeted Market Segment

• University which carry out R&D in the field of power sources;

• R&D centers of manufacture of battery’s components;

• Market related with testing of different promising active materials, electrolytes, separators, and other novel materials for battery market.

In the world about 1000 R&D centers carry out investigation deal with power sources. This laboratories may be potentials market for our laboratory equipments and test their materials in the batteries of industrial size.

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Competition

Only Hohsen Corp. proved testing and manufacturing equipment for the battery research

This equipment is used for

sealing for cylindrical cell

Weight : About 175 kg

This is a crimping tool for coin cells

Weight : About 12 kg Weight : 17 kg

The Figures presented some sampler of equipments provides by Hohsen Corp.

Size:150 (W) x 350 (L) x 200 (H) mm

Size:185 (W) x 245 (L) x 300 (H) mm

Size:440 (W) x 750 (L) x 720 (H) mm

Price : about $6,000 US Price : about $18,000 US Price : about $30,000 US

The equipments provided by Hohsen Corp. adapted only for specified type of battery. Also this equipment is expensive and no portable

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Competitive Matrix

Equipment for assembling AA

battery

My institute’s product Hohsen Corp. (Japan)

Adapting for different electrochemical systems

The equipment may be easy adapted for most of electrochemical systems

The electrochemical systems should be specified.

Reliability Reliable for different electrochemical systems. Facile replacement parts of equipment.

Reliable for specified electrochemical systems.

Portability Portable. Mass of sets of equipment up to 10 Kg.

No portable. Total mass of equipment could reach up to 500 kg

Price about US$ 20 K about US$ 200 K

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Opportunities

• We would like to found potential business partners in order to support a joint product development of modern battery technologies, especially in the field of lithium-ion battery.

• We would like to develop the scientific and business relationships with research and for-profit companies specializing in the field of development of different battery components (active materials, electrolytes, separators, additives, etc.) in order testing and commercialization of their R&D results in battery samples of standard industrial sizes.

• We estimate the cost of financial support for this work from 300K to 700K depending on a standard size equipment set.

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Contact information

Prof. V. Z. Barsukov+380 44 256 21 02

E-mail: chemi@mail.vtv.kiev.ua Kiev National University of Technologies and Design

KIEV