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For decades, we’ve worked with our customers and communities to drive progress. Pioneering, collaborating, evolving together. We continue to innovate with our partners, with the ultimate goal of creating a more sustainable future. To accelerate this process, our laboratories enable us to work with industry partners to find new solutions to power positive change.
Leading the way
Innovation
Transformative collaboration driving positive change
CLEAR Lab
Innovating safety & higher performanceThe Center for Lithium Energy Advanced Research (CLEAR) is advancing new ways to improve high performance energy storage. It’s a unique place where our customers and scientists work together to create safer and better performing batteries and applications that move the world forward.
CLEAR Lab, located in Bessemer City, North Carolina, is a unique place in the world where every aspect of the lithium-ion battery value chain from cathode/anode producers to battery producers to OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) can come together. Partners can conduct advanced materials’ testing and research alongside Arcadium Lithium scientists.
The birthplace of innovative lithium battery materials, CLEAR’s goal is nothing short of creating safer and higher-performing batteries and applications to power jets, electric cars, trains and mobile devices to move the world forward.
Analytical Lab
To usher in the next generation of lithium solutions, we bring rigorous testing to everything we do.Our partners expect reliable products, which we deliver through methodical analysis and rigorous quality standards in our labs. Using cutting-edge technologies, we investigate energy storage materials, high-purity lithium metal and alloys, and organometallics to power breakthroughs in key areas.
The cutting-edge Analytical Labs enable innovations and inventions through the methodical testing of products and processes. Our quality standards come from consistent emphasis on research and thorough investigation.
To explore breakthroughs in green energy, medicine, advanced polymers and more, we investigate energy storage materials, high-purity lithium metal and alloys, as well as organometallics with the latest cutting-edge technologies. Our partners expect us to deliver the most reliable products in the marketplace and we meet their needs through methodical, disciplined analysis in our labs.
Analytical Lab Capabilities
The main Applications R&D center at Arcadium Lithium is located in Bessemer City, North Carolina, USA. The facility is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation for analysis, along with process safety testing, to support our product lines in several market areas. This includes energy storage materials, organometallics for polymer and pharmaceutical applications, plus expertise in high-purity lithium metals for use in non-rechargeable batteries and alloys.
Tested to the Highest Standards
Our advanced energy storage products are produced to meet tight specifications. Arcadium Lithium has four ICP-OES instruments for trace metals analysis, autotitrators for accurate titration of inorganic bases and two Malvern Mastersizer instruments for particle size analysis. Our lithium metal for the energy storage and aerospace markets is rigorously tested using ICP and Gerhardt Nitrogen analyzers. Our Butyllithium and organometallic products are analyzed by autotitration, GC and wet chemical techniques to ensure quality and quantification of the active base contained in the product solutions.
We have a number of state-of-the-art instruments to support its Applications R&D and Process Development Laboratories. This includes battery cyclers and EIS for testing performance of cells that contain our products, as well as XRD and SEM-EDS units for characterizing advanced materials. Developing new organometallic products or processes requires careful attention to process safety, as they typically involve exothermic reactions—this is supported by the use of calorimeters, such as an RC-1 reaction calorimeter, OmniCal, ARSST or VSP. General purpose instrumentation includes a 400MHz NMR, FTIR, IC, HPLC and GC/MS.
LIOVIX®
A breakthrough for lithium-ion battery performance and innovationLIOVIX® is a unique printable formulation of lithium metal and other specialty materials that can improve the performaznce of lithium-ion batteries, reduce manufacturing costs and enable the next generation of battery technology, all while enhancing safety and sustainability.
LIOVIX® Overview
Higher Capacity, Longer Life Batteries
LIOVIX® can boost a battery’s output and extend its useful life with more recharge cycles. Performance improvements have been validated by our several leading OEMs and battery manufacturing customers around the world.
Enhanced Safety and Sustainability
Since LIOVIX® delivers lithium in a stable, protected form, it reduces the need for very stringent environmental conditions. LIOVIX® also gives battery manufacturers greater control and precision in how much lithium they use (reducing waste), allows for higher process efficiency (i.e., throughput) and opens pathways to shift away from conflict minerals and use more accessible battery materials.
Commercially Scalable
LIOVIX® can be incorporated into existing battery manufacturing processes using standard equipment and common industry methods for scaling operations.
Lower Manufacturing Costs
LIOVIX® significantly reduces the need for an expensive battery cell manufacturing process called “formation” and provides other cost savings and efficiencies resulting from improvements in battery capacity and cyclability.
Pathway to Next Generation Solid State Batteries
LIOVIX® is an important technology for the eventual development and commercialization of solid-state batteries using lithium metal. These next generation batteries will address many of the challenges and limitations of today’s liquid electrolyte-based battery cells.
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