Chemours opens battery lab
Chemours has opened Chemours Battery Innovation Centre (CBIC) at the Chemours Discovery Hub in Newark, Delaware. CBIC will support the testing and scaling of next-generation lithium-ion battery technologies to produce batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles. The investment was said to be of multi-million dollars.
The facility “will serve as a technical support lab for partners and customers to collaborate with Chemours’ engineers to iterate, pilot and adopt novel approaches to fabricating cost-effective batteries”, the company said. It will also further the advance of the company’s novel dry electrode coating technology based on Teflon fluoropolymer binders.
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