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Nanoporous block polymer separators for high performance and safe Li-ion batteries

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N68335-16-C-0253
Agency Tracking Number: N16A-008-0050
Amount: $79,999.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: N16A-T008
Solicitation Number: 2016.0
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2016
Award Year: 2016
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2016-05-24
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2016-12-30
Small Business Information
8100 Shaffer Parkway
Littleton, CO 80127
United States
DUNS: 148034408
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Dr. Weibing Xing
 (303) 792-5615
 weibingx@adatech.com
Business Contact
 James Budimlya
Phone: (303) 792-5615
Email: jim.budimlya@adatech.com
Research Institution
 University of Minnesota
 Marc Hillmyer
 
Room 209 Smith Hall 207 Pleasant Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

 (612) 625-7834
 Nonprofit College or University
Abstract

To meet Navy needs for high performance and safe lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries for naval aircraft, ADA Technologies Inc. (ADA) and its university collaborator propose to develop and optimize tailor designed nanoporous separators derived from functionalized block copolymers (polyolefins) with low cost precursors. The innovative strategy provides a powerful tool to allow exquisite tuning of performance and safety features of the nanostructured separator to meet Navys requirement for next generation Li-ion batteries for Navy aircraft applications. The proposed nanoporous separator innovation is based on prior development efforts which demonstrated promising physical and safety features of block polymer derived nanoporous separators that have uniformly distributed nanopores, robust mechanical properties, and exquisite tenability for separator thicknesses, pore size, porosity, melting point, tensile strength, and wettability dictated by the block polymer composition and functional side chains or branches. Most notably, the nanoporous separators exhibited the appealing chemical and thermal stability demonstrated by the exemplary, perfectly linear polyethylene (LPE) based separator materials.

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