LIS could very well produce the "Best Battery in the World"......
LIS have far more than the Electric Vehicle Market in their sights.
The flexible lithium-sulfur battery is destined to be a game changer and disrupt the battery market in numerous sectors;
Below is the patent, which is held by Deakin University. You will note that a number of the authors (scientists) are top 20 LIS Shareholders - they have skin in the game.
You will also notice that the patent was lodged in Washington, USA.
https://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30146531IP is a valuable asset that can support you when doing business overseas. An Australian patent, trade mark, design or plant breeder’s right does not secure your rights outside of Australia. You should consider IP protection in the countries that you are planning on doing business, including manufacturing, or selling products online.In general terms, IP registration and protection in the US is very similar to Australia. However, the civil litigation process for enforcement is considered to be more aggressive and expensive compared to Australia.
The USA is a member of international agreements for the protection of IP rights as administered through the World Intellectual Property Organization.
https://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/understanding-ip/taking-your-ip-global/ip-protection-usa
Recently, some pioneering companies have launched innovative mobile smart devices, such as the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip and Huawei Mate X, which are foldable 5 G smartphones. Although these foldable phones are not mainstream devices, this technological trend will be maintained further and is also expected to be accelerated by the development of new materials and components. Wearable smart devices have also received considerable attention from researchers, stimulating increasing research for a variety of applications, such as real-time healthcare monitoring, wearable-assistive robotics or exoskeletons, augmented reality, and entertainment for humans,. Given the increasing demands for flexible and wearable electronics, it is necessary to develop corresponding energy storage devices that are mechanically flexible, namely, that these developed materials are foldable and even stretchable. These emerging energy storage devices also need to be lightweight and have high electrochemical performance with a high energy density, high rate capability, and long cycling life,,,.
To date, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been widely used for portable electronic devices and electric vehicles owing to their high energy density (~300 Wh kg−1), high operating voltage, and long cycling lifetime. However, the widespread adoption of LIBs in flexible electronics is limited by their unstable electrochemical functions under mechanical deformation conditions. Among the various battery systems being discussed for next-generation electronics or electrical applications, lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have been considered a promising alternative to LIBs in terms of their low cost, nontoxicity, and natural abundance of available cathode active materials. The theoretical capacity of sulfur cathodes is ~10 times larger than that of conventional cathode materials used in LIBs, such as lithium nickel cobalt manganese (LiNi1-x-yCoxMnyO2, layer-structured), nickel cobalt aluminum (LiNi1-x-yCoxAlyO2, layer-structured) and lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4, olivine structured). The high capacity and charge/discharge cycling performance of these materials results from their two-electronsystem during the electrochemical reaction. During the discharge process, every sulfur atom can transfer two electrons by breaking the S–S bonds in the crown-like S8structure. Therefore, Li-S batteries can exhibit a specific energy density of ~ 2500 Wh kg−1, which is five- to tenfold higher than that of LIBs,,,,.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41427-021-00295-y
@Pancake Full presentation below
https://www.ppkgroup.com.au/site/PDF/495642ce-b6f3-4da5-b400-3b32600ac92a/LiSEnergyLimitedProjectPresentationLi-S Energy has now lodged two key provisional patents covering the function of BNNT within the lithium sulphur battery chemistry. The new technology covered by these patents has the potential to make large scale manufacturing of lithium sulphur batteries commercially viable for the first time.
Li-S Energy intends to optimise the design, then scale up the production of the new batteries over the coming years, with almost unlimited potential uses – including the possibility of an electric car that needs charging only every 1000 kilometres, a phone with a one-week battery life, off-grid solar/battery street-lighting and drones with several hours of flight time.
https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/news-and-media-releases/articles/nanotechnology-creates-next-generation-powerful-battery-technologyAlso, FYI.....
The company has “had an amazing amount of inbound interest already from some of the household names that use products with large batteries in them,” Lee Finniear, the Brisbane-based company’s chief executive officer, said Tuesday in a Bloomberg Television interview. Li-S is looking “not to compete, but to partner” with big battery manufacturers, retrofitting existing production lines to speed-up production, he said.
Radiation shielding, a necessity for companies including Tesla Inc.’s SpaceX, is another possible application of the technology, according to Finniear. PPK Group, a major shareholder in Li-S Energy, is applying BNNT technology for “everything from bullet-resistant glass, to reduce its weight, to advance aluminum to be able to provide lighter, stronger aluminum for space and aeronautical applications,” he said.
https://statnano.com/news/69792/Australian-Startup-Bets-on-Nanotubes-in-Bid-for-Better-BatteriesIMO DYOR
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