{"id":8617,"date":"2025-02-13T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/edfas\/ukbic-opens-new-advanced-battery-development-laboratory\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:23:06","slug":"ukbic-opens-new-advanced-battery-development-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/edfas\/ukbic-opens-new-advanced-battery-development-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"UKBIC opens new advanced battery development laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Battery Industrialization Center (UKBIC), United Kingdom, has opened its new upgraded and extended Battery Development Laboratory (BDL) which has greatly increased the facility\u2019s capabilities in key areas of battery materials characterization, cell analysis, and forensic activities.<\/p>\n<p>The new laboratory allows customers from all over the world to come to UKBIC to have their materials and cells analyzed and tested in real-time. The enhanced capability will provide vital data to customers during the lifespan of the battery cell scale-up journey.<\/p>\n<p>The 240m2 laboratory is open to all clients and will enable precision characterization of products that are processed on the facility\u2019s existing volume manufacturing line, the\u202fnew flexible development line once it is operational, as well as those products brought into the facility from elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The lab\u2019s capabilities have five key areas for manufacturing development:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Characterization \u2013 for analysis including material properties such as morphology, crystal structure, elemental and material compositions. The lab contains equipment for elemental analysis (ICP), electrode imaging and particle morphology (SEM\/EDX), phase analysis for crystalline materials (XRD), thermal properties and thermal stability (TGA), carbon-based materials characterization (Raman), and electrolyte characterization (GC, NMR).<\/li>\n<li>Chemical and physical processing \u2013 for the preparation of samples for characterization and the handling of more hazardous samples. Equipment supports Quality Control (QC) analysis and the safe handling of electrode materials and water-based slurry. There is also a protected bench space for handling electrodes and a double glovebox for coin cell assembly.<\/li>\n<li>Forensics \u2013 equipped with both thermal and optical cameras for investigating cell failures and for the safe teardown of cells. Highlights include a VHX Microscope (Keyence), which has up to 6,000 magnification and which is capable of taking 2D and 3D measurements, a glovebox (MBraun) and a Shadowgraph (Keyence) microscope with automatic dimension measurement system.<\/li>\n<li>Electrochemistry \u2013 for advanced electrochemical analysis on coin cells, single-layer pouch cells and multi-layer pouch cells, including extended cycling and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.<\/li>\n<li>CT Scanner\u202f\u2013 for non-destructive analysis of cells to understand issues and potential failure modes without the need to physically teardown the cell. The capability is a strategic partnership between UKBIC and Waygate Technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The BDL is the second in a series of \u00a374m upgrades to UKBIC to come online. Funded through the Faraday Battery Challenge by UK Research and Innovation, other enhancements are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cell cyclers and environmental chambers to enable developers to continuously charge and discharge cylindrical and pouch cells, and measure how many cycles a battery cell can deliver over its life, which came on line late last year;<\/li>\n<li>A clean and dry zone where customers can rent space for their own development and testing purposes under strictly controlled environmental conditions, which is due to open this year; and<\/li>\n<li>A flexible pilot line where customers can undertake early-stage optimization cycles and production trials at a smaller scale than UKBIC\u2019s existing volume line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Richard LeCain, UKBIC\u2019s chief technology officer, said:\u202f\u201cHaving this new on-site resource will ensure customers have a steady flow of data as they develop and scale new manufacturing processes, materials and chemistries as they head towards commercial production. This in-house capability will be an incredible resource for UKBIC and the UK battery industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UKBIC is part of the Faraday Battery Challenge, which is a \u00a3610m investment program which supports world-class scientific technology development and manufacturing scale-up capability for batteries in the UK. \u202fThe Challenge supports world-class scientific technology development and manufacturing scale-up capability for batteries in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n<p>UK Battery Industrialization Center<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukbic.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.ukbic.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Battery Industrialization Center, United Kingdom, opened its new upgraded and extended Battery Development Laboratory, greatly increased the facility\u2019s capabilities in key areas of battery materials characterization, cell analysis, and forensic activities.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63245,"featured_media":8618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[462,445,572,499,582,460,441,437,435,436,587,470,512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applications","category-batteries-and-energy-storage","category-batteries-and-fuel-cells","category-electrical-properties","category-equipment-and-instrumentation","category-failure-analysis","category-materials-properties-and-performance","category-materials-testing-and-evaluation","category-news","category-news-articles","category-scanning-electron-microscopy","category-testing-and-characterization","category-testing-and-monitoring"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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