Nondestructive Testing (NDT) Applications)

• Quality assurance testing of bulk raw materials intended for use in manufacture


• 100% testing of battery, solar cell, fuel cell and supercapacitor components during manufacture


• High voltage gas discharge for determining the integrity of flexible pouch seals 


• Quality assurance of thin film coated or laminated materials


• Conductivity determination for polymer electrolyte thin films and membranes

Manufacturing Technology and Designs

• High rate, high quality electrode material deposition using a glow discharge electron gun and a gas detonation process for the creation a high efficiency electrodes and solid electrolyte for micro-batteries


• Proprietary processes for reducing interface resistance between the electrode and current collector of batteries and supercapacitors to improve power density and increase efficiency.


• Processes for creating polymer materials, transparent conductive oxides and nano crystalline silicon that make solar cells more efficient.


• Processes for making thin film materials for use in a new class of microelectronic sensors

New Materials

• High performance ionomers for fuel cell and solid polymer electrolyte applications can operate at higher temperatures than current membrane materials


• New LiMn₂O₄ spinels and graphites, including nanostructured materials for battery and supercapacitor electrodes.


• Solid inorganic electrolyte with a high conductivity at ambient temperature for full solid state lithium batteries.


• Thin film semi-conducting materials of cerium, tungsten, dysprosium oxides and two- composition oxide systems for a new class of microelectronic sensors


• Encapsulation and protective polymer formulations that improve performance solar cell based on monocrystalline, nanocrystalline, and amorphous silicon