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Ilika plc
16 August 2016
Ilika plc
("Ilika" or the "Company")
Grant Award: Protected anodes for lithium sulphur batteries
Ilika (AIM: IKA), a pioneer in materials innovation and solid-state battery technology, announces
that it is taking part in a three-year project to develop protected anodes for lithium sulphur batteries,
led by Johnson Matthey Plc and supported by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
£365,133 of the grant will be used to fund project activities at Ilika.
Johnson Matthey Plc is a global speciality chemicals company and a leader
in sustainable technologies. Using its expertise in chemistry and advanced materials, the company develops a range of high value added, high technology products and services, including high performance battery systems.
Other partners in the project are Williams Grand Prix Engineering Ltd, the University of Oxford and the University of
Warwick.
This project will develop an innovative protected lithium anode approach, via Ilika's
high-throughput materials development technique, to discover new electrolyte composition options and fabricate a free-standing,
lithium-containing protected anode/separator for integration into pouch cells. The novel protected anode will mitigate a commonly
experienced problem in lithium-sulphur cells, the so-called polysulphide shuttle effect, leading to enhanced performance cells
that can be made with existing cell fabrication methods. The pouch cells
being developed in this project are high capacity, low cost batteries for large scale renewable energy storage and therefore
address a distinct market segment to the Internet of Things (IoT) applications for which Ilika's StereaxTM batteries
are designed.
Commenting on this grant award, Graeme Purdy, Ilika CEO, said:
"This project brings together international leading scientists and industrial partners with the resources,
skills and experience to deliver and exploit this new concept. The partners have the know-how to design and develop new battery
components and take them through to roll to roll electrode fabrication and pouch cell manufacture and
evaluation."
For more information contact:
Ilika plc
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Graeme Purdy, Chief Executive
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Tel: 023 8011 1400
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Steve Boydell, Finance Director
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Numis Securities Limited
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Tel: 020 7260 1000
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James Black
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Walbrook PR Ltd
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Paul Cornelius
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Mob: 07866 384 707
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Lianne Cawthorne
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Mob: 07584 391 303
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