Managed by DOE’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO), the next-generation batteries projects fall under two topic areas:
Platforms for Next-Generation Battery Manufacturing. Subtopic 1 focuses on advanced processes and/or high-performance processing machines for low cost, large-scale, sustainable, commercial manufacture of sodium-ion batteries.
AM Batteries, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts): $2.8 million
Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, Illinois): $1.5 million
Clean Republic SODO LLC d/b/a Dakota Lithium Materials (Seattle, Washington): $2 million
Subtopic 2 focuses on design and manufacturing of flow battery membranes, as well as system design and manufacturing for scale-up of flow battery production and cost-effective integration of flow battery systems.
Quino Energy, Inc. (San Leandro California): $2.6 million
Arkema, Inc. (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania): $2.1 million
University of Akron (Akron, Ohio): $1.6 million
Subtopic 3 focuses on scalable manufacturing processes and equipment for nanolayered films.
University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland): $2.6 million
Illinois Institute of Technology / Spraying System Co. (Chicago, Illinois / Glendale Heights, Illinois): $2.6 million
Smart Manufacturing Platforms for Battery Production. This topic emphasizes development of broadly applicable smart manufacturing platforms that can be leveraged to improve the production of a variety of battery technologies.
Charge CCCV (Vestal, New York): $2.6 million
American Lithium Energy Corp. (Carlsbad, California): $2.6 million
Titan Advanced Energy Solutions (Salem, Massachusetts): $2.6 million
