Battery company tests Talga’s graphene for battery applications

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Advanced materials company, Talga Resources Ltd has signed a Collaboration Agreement (“Agreement”) with JenaBatteries GmbH (“JenaBatteries”) to jointly explore use of Talga’s graphene products in flow batteries. Under the Agreement, Talga will formulate and supply graphene for testing in components producing JenaBatteries’ patented polymer flow battery, a type of redox flow battery suitable for commercial scale and grid applications.

Talga’s graphene will aim to reduce manufacturing costs and increase the performance and longevity of the flow battery components by utilising graphene’s renowned properties of conductivity, chemical inertness and impermeability. The collaboration provides a platform for Talga’s graphene to be introduced to the large stationary energy storage sector, using variants of its graphene already developed for mobile energy applications. Each company will contribute it’s own intellectual property and products to the collaboration and can share jointly in any new technologies resulting from the collaboration. JenaBatteries is a German-based technology company that is commercialising its globally patented metal-free redox flow battery.

By using a new class of energy storage polymers (‘plastics’) instead of vanadium and other metal-ions, JenaBatteries aims to utilise the wellestablished global production capacity of the plastics industry to produce batteries in the megawatt/megawatthour (MW/MWh) range. JenaBatteries is supported by Wirthwein AG, a leading international plastic components manufacturer with a strong focus on the energy business segment.

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