Announcements, research milestones, awards, and partnerships across the X-BATT materials platform.
Glassact™ is a domestically manufactured silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) anode designed to deliver the high energy capacity associated with silicon batteries in a stable ceramic particle — engineered for safer, higher-energy lithium-ion cells that can be produced at scale.
X-MAT and X-BATT welcomed NeoCity Academy students for a morning of lab tours and hands-on coin-cell assembly — a glimpse into advanced materials and battery research for the next generation of scientists and engineers.
Harnessing Nature's Potential — composite anode materials that use renewable, bio-derived carbon sources including agricultural waste and even spent coffee grounds.
X-BATT and Semplastics announce continued development of high-performance lithium-ion battery anode composites utilizing recycled graphite from spent batteries — backed by a Phase II DOE SBIR grant with Princeton NuEnergy and the Battery Innovation Center.
X-BATT partners with CONSOL Innovations to form C-BATT Innovations LLC — a joint venture focused on accelerating coal-based anode technology toward commercialization.
A Phase II SBIR grant from the DOE provides $1.1 million to advance work in recycling and upcycling low-value graphite from spent lithium-ion batteries into high-performance anode materials.
X-BATT-developed coal-composite anode achieves over 1,000 cycles with 80% retention in industrial-format 18650 cells, demonstrating a commercially viable, domestically sourced alternative to graphite.
Scaling coal-composite anode technology into industrial-format 18650 cells — the type used in EVs, power tools, and consumer electronics — using standard manufacturing equipment.
Recognized at the BIC's 5th Annual Stakeholder Luncheon as the emerging company and technology with the highest potential to make a difference in batteries and electrification.
The Department of Energy awards over $200K to Semplastics to develop novel high-capacity composite anodes for upcycling spent graphite from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries.
U.S. Patent 11,335,962 B2 granted, covering the incorporation of recycled or contaminated materials from spent lithium-ion batteries into high-performance anode composites.
A recycled-graphite ceramic composite anode that outperforms traditional materials in single-layer pouch cells — engineered from previously unusable, contaminated graphite.
Coin cells using coal-composite anode reach over 400 cycles, with single-layer pouch cells surpassing 100 cycles — outperforming graphite, the traditional anode material.
X-MAT combines a commercial cathode with its proprietary ceramic coal composite anode in a successful full-cell battery — already exceeding 450 cycles in third-party testing.
A second major DOE contract advances X-MAT's clean-coal battery research, alongside testing that's already shown coated recycled graphite can be twice as powerful as new graphite.
Patented coating technology nearly triples recycled-graphite capacity — from 270 mAh/g to 700 mAh/g — turning end-of-life lithium-ion battery materials into a higher-performing input.