100% correct Wink.

Novonix's JV with Pr Mark Obrovac and his team of PHD Scientist at Dalhousie University means that it will stay at the forefront of new EV and Grid Storage Battery technology for the next decade at least.

Have a look at what Novonix's research team, via Pr Mark Obrovac is working on, in addition to the silicon infused graphite anode material where a Patent Application was made 12 months ago. We should hear more about this breakthrough, which provides longer range on a single charge this year.

These are the beyond lithium ion technologies they are working on, which are expected to be released to the market in 8-12 yrs from now.

Solid State, Lithium Metal, Sodium Ion, Metal Ion, Magnesium batteries, etc etc.

But this is what we need to focus on...."My lab conducts research and development of advanced battery materials and new synthesis methods. We design new materialsthat can store large amounts of energy for next generation Li-ion and beyond Li-ion batteries. This includes the design and synthesis of new chemistries and highly engineered particles with core/shell structures, internal porosity, embedded nanoparticles, composition gradients, external coatings, etc. We also develop new synthesis and manufacturing methods that can produce highly complex active particles for Li-ion batteries sustainably and at a large scale."



https://www.dal.ca/faculty/science/chemistry/faculty-staff/our-faculty/mark-obrovac.html

Mark N. Obrovac

Professor; NSERC/NovonixIndustrial Research Chair in Metal Ion Batteries

Related information

• Personal website

Department of Chemistry , Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 902-494-4060
Mailing Address:

Department of Chemistry
Dalhousie University
6274 Coburg Road
P.O. Box 15000
Halifax NS B3H 4R2

Research Topics:

• Materials for energy storage
• Materials Synthesis
• Advanced Li-ion battery materials
• Metal-ion batteries
• Magnesium batteries
• Sodium ion batteries
• Electrochemistry

Education

• BSc, Simon Fraser University
• MSc, Dalhousie University
• PhD, Dalhousie University
• PDF, Cornell University

Research interests

My lab conducts research and development of advanced battery materials and new synthesis methods. We design new materials that can store large amounts of energy for next generation Li-ion and beyond Li-ion batteries. This includes the design and synthesis of new chemistries and highly engineered particles with core/shell structures, internal porosity, embedded nanoparticles, composition gradients, external coatings, etc. We also develop new synthesis and manufacturing methods that can produce highly complex active particles for Li-ion batteries sustainably and at a large scale.

Selected awards and honours

• Harry Shirreff Prize for Excellence in Research in Chemistry (2014)
  
• 3M Corporate Level Circle of Technical Excellence and Innovation Award (2006)
  
• 3M Division Level Circle of Technical Excellence and Innovation Award (2006)
  
• 3M Division Level Circle of Technical Excellence and Innovation Award (2005)

Selected publications

• Lituo Zheng, M.D.L Garayt, and M.N. Obrovac, Engineered Particle Synthesis by Dry Particle Microgranulation, Cell Reports Physical Science, 1 (2020) 100063.
  
• Lituo Zheng, Congxiao Wei, M.D.L. Garayt, Judy MacInnis, and M.N. Obrovac, Spherically Smooth Cathode Particles by Mechanofusion Processing, J. Electrochem. Soc., 166 (2019) A2924.
  
• Yidan Cao, T. D. Hatchard, R. A. Dunlap, and M. N. Obrovac, Mechanofusion-derived Si-alloy/graphite composite electrode materials for Li-ion batteries, J. Mater. Chem. A, 7 (2019) 8335.
  
• Yidan Cao, J. Craig Bennett, R.A. Dunlap and M.N. Obrovac, A Simple Synthesis Route for High-Capacity SiOx Anode Materials with Tunable Oxygen Content for Lithium-Ion Batteries, Chemistry of Materials, 30 (2018) 7418.
  
• Leyi Zhao, Xiuyun Zhao, L. Burke, C. Bennett, R.A. Dunlap and M.N. Obrovac, Voronoi Tessellated Graphite Produced by Low Temperature Catalytic Graphitization of Renewable Hard Carbon, ChemSusChem., 10 (2017) 3409.