NexTech Batteries

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. NexTech’s 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.