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Rugged Durability of Soteria Technology Shown in Drone Flight After Damage
High-energy NMC 811 pouch cells continue to demonstrate excellent safety results. Soteria attached a three-cell battery to a drone after nail penetration to highlight the technology’s life after damage effect. The battery survived the abuse and powered the drone seamlessly.
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Impressive Overcharge & Nail Penetration Results Highlight Enhanced Safety
High-energy pouch cells demonstrated excellent safety in overcharge conditions. These NMC 811 cells with the Soteria aluminum current collector exhibited venting, without flame or explosion, achieving a EUCAR Level 4. Control cells with standard foils quickly went into thermal runaway, demonstrating a EUCAR Level 7 (worst possible) performance. Under nail penetration, the difference in thermal runaway response was even more drastic as the control cells immediately erupted in flames, while the Soteria cells remained completely stable. |
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Soteria Overview & Values
This overview presentation, given at the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School's Aspire Conference in October 2018, outlines the Soteria mission: To eliminate fires in all lithium batteries, forever. Watch our CEO, Brian Morin, discuss our material architecture and business model here. |
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Recent News & Articles
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"Soteria Battery Innovation Group Signs Exclusive License and Option for a Battery Safety Technology by Oak Ridge National Laboratory"
September 30, 2020 Soteria Battery Innovation Group (BIG) has exclusively licensed and optioned a technology developed by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed to eliminate thermal runaway in lithium ion batteries due to mechanical damage. The technology complements Soteria’s existing battery safety technology. [...]" Keep Reading |
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"Introducing the Ultimate Winner of New Energy Challengers"
September 25, 2020 Introducing Soteria Battery Innovation Group, which aims to reduce risk of battery fires by eliminating self-ignition with new battery architecture and materials." [Keep Reading] |
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"The Urban Future Prize Competition Honors the Best of this Year's Cleantech Innovations"
April 23, 2020 The Urban Future Prize Competition showcases the world's most revolutionary cleantech innovations, and today the New York University Tandon School of Engineering announced the winners of the 2020 event, which was held online by its Urban Future Lab - New York City's longest-running cleantech incubator program and which is funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. [...]" Keep Reading |
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"Department of Energy Announces 2019 Technology Commercialization Fund Projects"
July 10, 2019 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced over $25 million in funding for 77 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF). [One selected project is] Li-ion batteries with Safer Current Collectors (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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"SWM Joins Soteria Battery Innovation Group"
May 7th 2019 SWM International, a global provider of high performance specialty papers and nonwovens, has joined the Soteria Battery Innovation Group (BIG). SWM is the leading supplier of nonwoven battery separator papers in the alkaline battery market and is expanding its solutions for the global energy storage industry. [...] Keep Reading |
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"Top 10 Energy Startups - 2019"
April 2nd 2019 Energy has been a hot topic of discussion for some time now, with the exhaustible use of renewable energy resources and the need to find alternate sources of energy to overcome the ever-increasing dependence on these energy sources. One of the main advantages in this struggle has been the rapid rate at which technology has been advancing. A wave of energy tech startup has come up with their innovative solutions that leverage the most advance technologies to pave the path for a new era that promises not only a world running sustainable and renewable energy but also effective measures to store them as well. [...] Keep Reading |
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"Inventus Power Joins Soteria Battery Innovation Consortium"
March 22nd 2019 Inventus Power, a global designer and manufacturer of battery packs, chargers and power supplies for the commercial, industrial, consumer, medical and military markets, today announced that it has joined the Soteria Battery Innovation Group (BIG.) Soteria BIG is a consortium of companies representing the ecosystem of developers and users of energy storage technology for a wide range of markets. [...] Keep Reading |
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NASA Webinar "Metallized Plastic Current Collectors"
January 30th 2019 NASA presented safety results on 18650 cells built at Coulometrics comparing traditional foil current collectors and Soteria's metallized film current collectors. A variety of safety tests, such as nail penetration and oven testing, were completed at Coulometrics and NASA. Further testing was done at the European Synchrotron Facility with ultra high speed x-ray videography to take a closer look at what was happening inside the cells. Watch and listen to the recorded presentation here. |
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"Pepperdine's Most Fundable Companies of 2018"
October 25th 2018 Congratulations to the 2018 Pepperdine Most Fundable Companies. We scoured thousands of early-stage startups across the nation looking for companies worthy of serious investor consideration. These 15 select companies rose to the top based on the viability of their business model, size of addressable market, management team, expertise, board of advisors, and competitive advantage in their market. [...] Keep Reading |
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"Pepperdine Graziadio Business School Reveals 15 Startups on Most Fundable Companies List"
October 12th 2018 Pepperdine Graziadio Business School announced its first annual Most Fundable Companies List at a campus event Thursday, with South Carolina-based company, Soteria Battery Innovation Group, taking the top spot. Thousands of early-stage U.S. companies with less than $10 million in annual revenue participated in the Most Fundable Companies initiative, which is designed to bridge the gap between startups and the capital they need to succeed. [...] Keep Reading |
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"IDTechEx Announces the Winners of Launchpad"
October 10th 2018 IDTechEx Launchpad will showcase innovations from 10 start-up companies at the IDTechEx Show! held in Santa Clara, USA on November 14-15, 2018. All winners will be showing a new working prototype or product, many for the first time. [...] Keep Reading |
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"Soteria Forms Leadership Council to Guide Commercialization and Open Access to Safe Lithium Battery Architecture"
September 6th 2018 Soteria Battery Innovation Group (BIG) has formed a Leadership Council of leading industrial companies to guide the commercialization of its safe lithium ion battery architecture. Members include Delfort, Domtar, DNV-GL, DuPont, Enerdel, Glatfelter, Ingevity, K2 Energy, Nasa, Novelis, Spectra Power, Teijin and Voith. With these members, the Soteria BIG Leadership Council draws on world class expertise in advanced materials, specialty nonwovens, lithium ion batteries and lithium ion battery safety. [...] Keep Reading |
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"The Power of an (Almost) Open Innovation Approach to Battery Materials"
August 27th 2018 Today, lithium ion batteries catch fire every day. One need only do a Google Images search on “lithium battery fire” to see images of fantastic blazes and dismal burns. It is an issue that is growing as batteries proliferate from our pockets and computers to our wrists, cars and houses. And as they get bigger, the stakes get higher. [...] Keep Reading |
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"Soteria BIG Announcements & Upcoming Events" August 20th 2018 In this newsletter, we announce our first licensee of the Dreamweaver separators, initial Founding Members, and the newest additions to the Soteria Consortium. We also highlight our patent portfolio and recent achievements. [...] Keep Reading |
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"How I Stumbled into Something BIG: The Founding of the Soteria Battery Innovation Group"
8/13/18 Last year I found myself with a dramatic improvement to battery architecture—and a market dead end. But necessity is the mother of invention, and much discussion led to a key discovery about the market. The Soteria Battery Innovation Group was born as much from a technological advance as a cultural revelation. And now it’s poised to bring about big changes in lithium ion batteries. [...] Keep Reading |
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"Clubbing together for safer lithium-ion batteries"
July 10th 2018 It’s a few years since Brian Morin appeared at the late Shep Wolsky’s famous Florida battery seminar, announcing a novel lithium-ionbattery separator— one that would not shrink in the event of a thermal runaway. A separator that would help prevent battery fires and which would seriously improve the safety record of lithium-ion batteries. [...] Keep Reading |
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"Soteria Promotes Novel Architecture for Lithium-Ion Batteries"
March 22nd 2018 Technology development and licensing company Soteria Battery Innovation Group announced a novel lithium battery design that promises to bring higher safety to electric vehicles and mobile devices. Key of the innovation is the reduced proportion of metal and elements sensitive to temperature fluctuations. [...] Keep Reading |
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"Soteria Forms Consortium to Promote New Architecture for Mass Production of Safe Lithium Ion Batteries"
March 20th 2018 Soteria Battery Innovation Group is forming a consortium to make its new lithium battery architecture available to every battery manufacturer worldwide. By eliminating excess metal and thermally unstable components of the battery, the new architecture virtually eliminates the possibility of the self-ignition that has plagued lithium ion batteries in applications such as hoverboards, smart phones, electric vehicles and airplane battery systems. [...] Keep Reading |
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