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BASF advances battery material efforts

by Michael McCoy
February 15, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 7

A photo of a redox flow battery.
Credit: BASF
Redox flow batteries are suited for storing electricity generated by renewable energy sources, BASF says.

BASF has picked Schwarzheide, Germany, as the site for a previously announced cathode raw materials facilityto supply makers of electric vehicle batteries. The plant will use nickel-based precursors from a facility BASF is building in Finland. Both plants will open in 2022. Separately, BASF will supply an amine-containing electrolyte for redox flow batteries made by the German firm JenaBatteries. The stationary batteries are used for electricity storage.

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