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Inorganic Chemicals

Lotte and Soelect plan lithium metal anode plant

by Alex Scott
May 6, 2022 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 100, Issue 16

 

South Korea’s Lotte Chemical and the North Carolina–based battery technology start-up Soelect are planning a joint venture for lithium-metal anode materials and solid electrolytes for electric vehicle batteries. As part of the venture, the partners plan to build a $200 million, GW h-scale lithium-metal anode plant by 2025. Lithium-metal batteries promise a substantial increase in performance compared with today’s lithium-ion batteries, but they can be unstable.

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