VATIS UPDATE Article

Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, have produced what they claim are the first Australian facility capable of such production. The facility – located within QUT’s pilot plant precinct at Banyo on Brisbane’s northside – contains low humidity electro-manufacturing dry rooms, which the university also claims is a first in Australia.

“The lithium-ion batteries, commonly used in electronic devices such as smartphones and drones, are the same format as those used in Tesla vehicles. Importantly, as part of this project we identified the bes-owned lithium-ion batteries after establishing a manufacturing t lithium-based powders to use to create a battery of the highest energy-efficiency standards possible. The powder is a combination of lithium and other compounds,” said Peter Talbot, at QUT.

The technology and processes developed at QUT as part of the 3-year AU$4 million project – funded by the Auto Cooperative Research Centre and conducted in conjunction with the Malaysia Automotive Institute – can be used by commercial battery manufacturing companies. The newly-developed method instead uses high-performance, low-cost catalysts, produced through the control of the composition, size, and crystallinity of metal oxides of elements such as iron, cobalt, and nickel.