NexTech Batteries is a U.S-based battery company, founded in 2016 with exclusive Li-S technology licensure from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
NexTech Batteries is headquartered in Carson City, Nevada, and is working to develop safer, more efficient, and more advanced batteries. NexTechâs Li-S technology aims to more than double the Wh/kg of incumbent Li-ion technology, while providing unparalleled safety and cost advantages.
Its Li-S chemistry does not exhibit thermal runaway, unlike Li-ion, even under catastrophic abuse tests such as short-circuit, puncture, and bullet impacts. Its technology also does not rely on expensive strategic metals, such as cobalt, but rather uses inexpensive and abundant sulfur as the active material. NexTech's continuously increasing patent portfolio covers all areas of cell technology, such as solid-state electrolytes for optimal cycle life and enhanced safety and cathode architecture for unparalleled specific energy (Wh/kg).
The Company is working with Directa Plus, and in February 2021, the two signed a 3-year Supply and Strategic R&D agreement for developing next-generation batteries for green mobility, grid storage, aviation and consumer products. The R&D Agreement provides for Joint Lab activities with the intention of developing new specific grades of G+ graphene nanoplatelets. Both parties will dedicate selected scientists from their R&D teams and part of their respective facilities to the enterprise.
Directa Plus said these agreements follow on from the memorandum of understanding signed with NexTech in October.
Directa Plus said it will supply NexTech with 300 kilos of graphene nanoplatelets in 2021, with future quantities to be agreed at the end of each year and based on NexTech's anticipated growth.
Contact information for NexTech Batteries
5138 Metric Way
Carson City, NV 89706
United States
Directa Plus' partner, NexTech Batteries, takes a step towards production of graphene-based batteries
Directa Plus recently updated that NexTech Batteries, with which Directa established a partnership for developing next-generation batteries, has established an Italian subsidiary to explore the feasibility of producing cathode active materials in Italy, where Directa Plus' graphene technology will be an important component.
NexTech's subsidiary, called NexTech Italia SpA, will look at producing these materials using Directa Plus' graphene nanoplatelets for the manufacture of lithium-sulphur batteries throughout Europe, "in order to accelerate the technology's commercialization".
Directa Plus signs agreements with NexTech Batteries for lithium sulphur batteries
Directa Plus progressed its partnership with U.S-based Lithium Sulphur batteries company NexTech Batteries by signing a 3-year Supply and Strategic R&D agreement for developing next-generation batteries for green mobility, grid storage, aviation and consumer products.
The Supply Agreement, based on a worldwide bilateral exclusivity in the lithium battery field, has an initial duration of three years, with an option to be extended for two years longer. The R&D Agreement, also with a duration of three years, provides for Joint Lab activities with the intention of developing new specific grades of G+ graphene nanoplatelets. Both parties will dedicate selected scientists from their R&D teams and part of their respective facilities to the enterprise.
Directa Plus announces "fantastic achievement" with partner NexTech's graphene-enhanced prototype battery
Directa Plus, which has recently signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with lithium sulphur batteries company NexTech Batteries, has announced that using its G+ pristine graphene nanoplatelets, NexTech managed to achieve more than 400 watt-hours per kilogram in a practical system, "the holy grail" for many battery applications.
NexTech produced several prototypes using its proprietary cathode and electrolyte materials producing 410Wh/kg of specific energy at a weight only slightly below 30 grams. For comparison, standard lithium-ion batteries have an energy density of 100-265 Wh/kg.
Directa Plus signs MoU with NexTech Batteries to supply graphene for lithium sulphur battery production
Italy-based Directa Plus recently signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with NexTech Batteries, a company active in the field of lithium sulphur batteries based in Nevada, US.
Under the terms of the agreement, Directa would supply its G+ graphene nanoplatelets to Nextech Batteries.
