1. NOVEL “ENERGETIC” MATERIALS & LABORATORY EQUIPMENT FOR PORTABLE BATTERIES ASSEMBLING
NATO-STCU Seminar “From Science to Business”
11-12 October 2006
KIEV
V. Z. Barsukov, V. G. Khomenko
Kiev National University of Technologies and Design
KIEV, UKRAINE

2. What is needed in the market? Brief technology description.
Talk outline   
What is needed in the market?
Brief technology description.
Stage of development.
Who needs it & how many will they need?
What is my unique technology advantage?
Competitive matrix.
How will I beat the competition?
Opportunity for joint work.

3. Proprietary information statement
The technology material presented in this talk is available for licensing or joint product development.
None of the slides contain any confidential or proprietary information which would prevent patenting the technology.

4. Market Need
Resently the global battery market is about $50 billion US. The growth is estimated at 6% annually through 2006.
The market deal with battery R&D equipments is in the range about $1 billion US.

5. Problem Description
Today’s there is a huge discrepancy between research and commercial battery development. The main reason is that most research laboratories can not carry out electrochemical testing of their materials in full battery samples of industrial sizes.
About 1000 R&D centers and university need reliable, portable and low cost laboratory equipment to assemble battery samples of industrials size.

6. Brief technology description
We have developed reliable, precise and relatively low cost sets of laboratory equipment and technology for making battery samples of standard industrial sizes.
Examples of coin and cylindrical batteries assembled using our laboratory equipments
Cylindrical batteries
2016 coin battery
Heavy duty MnO2/Zn
D size battery
Rechargeable AA battery
Alkaline AA battery
2325 coin battery

7. Advantages
Different promising materials for battery technologies could be tested in battery samples of some standard industrial sizes;
Lab equipment and technologies allow to assemble coin cells of 2016 and 2325 sizes, cylindrical AA and D sizes for testing Lithium, Lithium-Ion, Lithium-Polymer and alkaline manganese dioxide batteries, as well as novel materials for these types of batteries.

8. Experimental results
Characteristics of coin batteries attained in standard industrial sizes
Characteristic of cylindrical batteries attained in standard industrial sizes

9. Stage of development
The Figures presented sampler of Lab equipment
KNUTD has developed unique sets of equipment and Lab. technology for assembling the following types of cylindrical batteries:
coin cells of 2016 and 2325 sizes;
cylindrical batteries of AA and D sizes.
The above equipments installed successfully by KNUTD in the R&D centre of Superior Graphite Co. USA. The equipment allow Superior Graphite Co. to provided novel energetic materials to the battery market.

10. Targeted Market Segment
University which carry out R&D in the field of power sources;
R&D centers of manufacture of battery’s components;
Market related with testing of different promising active materials, electrolytes, separators, and other novel materials for battery market.
In the world about 1000 R&D centers carry out investigation deal with power sources. This laboratories may be potentials market for our laboratory equipments and test their materials in the batteries of industrial size.

11. Competition
Only Hohsen Corp. proved testing and manufacturing equipment for the battery research
The Figures presented some sampler of equipments provides by Hohsen Corp.
This is a crimping tool for coin cells
This equipment is used for sealing for cylindrical cell
Size:
440 (W) x 750 (L) x 720 (H) mm
Size:
150 (W) x 350 (L) x 200 (H) mm
Size:
185 (W) x 245 (L) x 300 (H) mm
Weight :
About 12 kg
Weight :
17 kg
Weight :
About 175 kg
Price : about $6,000 US
Price : about $18,000 US
Price : about $30,000 US
The equipments provided by Hohsen Corp. adapted only for specified type of battery. Also this equipment is expensive and no portable

12. Adapting for different electrochemical systems
Competitive Matrix
Equipment for assembling AA battery
My institute’s product
Hohsen Corp. (Japan)
Adapting for different electrochemical systems
The equipment may be easy adapted for most of electrochemical systems
The electrochemical systems should be specified.
Reliability
Reliable for different electrochemical systems. Facile replacement parts of equipment.
Reliable for specified electrochemical systems.
Portability
Portable. Mass of sets of equipment up to 10 Kg.
No portable. Total mass of equipment could reach up to 500 kg
Price
about US$ 20 K
about US$ 200 K

13. Opportunities
We would like to found potential business partners in order to support a joint product development of modern battery technologies, especially in the field of lithium-ion battery.
We would like to develop the scientific and business relationships with research and for-profit companies specializing in the field of development of different battery components (active materials, electrolytes, separators, additives, etc.) in order testing and commercialization of their R&D results in battery samples of standard industrial sizes.
We estimate the cost of financial support for this work from 300K to 700K depending on a standard size equipment set.

14. Contact information
Prof. V. Z. Barsukov
Kiev National University of Technologies and Design
KIEV