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Energy storage technologies are advancing at a fast pace and lithium-ion batteries are currently leading the way to store energy and power everything from mobile phones and laptops to electric vehicles and industrial equipment.

To support this rapidly expanding battery technology industry, Avantor has a broad offering of products and services to speed up the procurement process, for research organizations, mining & processing facilities, as well as battery manufacturing & recycling companies – for each of their mission-critical workflows.

Avantor offers products and services to support:

Mining & refining of battery metals

Production of battery materials

Production of battery components (cathode, anode)

Battery cell, module & pack assembly

Battery R&D, QA/QC and Testing

Battery recycling

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Floor Level: M

Through our offering of market price assessments, forecasting and advisory services, Benchmark enables the biggest decisions of the energy transition. Benchmark’s price assessments are used to settle battery supply chain contracts and our lithium prices are the industry’s benchmark and reference pricing. Our forecasting services are used by industry, government and financiers to make multi-billion-dollar decisions on supply contracts, infrastructure investment and policy. Based in London and established in 2015, Benchmark is the most influential and fastest growing company in the industry.

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Floor Level: Upper Ground

A product portfolio of potentiostat-galvanostats, battery cyclers and impedance analyzers satisfies the needs of industrial R&D in new energy storage technologies, fuel cells, photovoltaics, corrosion and biosensors.

Our user-friendly instruments and dedicated software have been developed in partnership with the scientists and R&D laboratories that develop and test batteries worldwide.

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Floor Level: M

Its COMSOL Multiphysics® product is an integrated software environment for creating physics-based models and simulation applications. A particular strength is its ability to account for coupled or multiphysics phenomena. Add-on products expand the simulation platform for structural, electromagnetics, acoustics, heat transfer, chemical and fluid flow applications. Interfacing tools enable the integration of COMSOL Multiphysics simulations with all major technical computing and CAD tools on the computer-aided engineering (CAE) market. Simulation experts rely on COMSOL Compiler™ and COMSOL Server™ to deploy applications to their design teams, manufacturing departments, test laboratories and customers throughout the world. 

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Floor Level: First Floor

We are the 3DEXPERIENCE Company

Our business is innovation. Running on our 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we provide software solutions that accelerate and de-risk the creation of innovative new products and services by leveraging virtual experiences.

The entire battery innovation value chain can leverage our world-class modeling, simulating and testing apps from mining to new materials to cells and modules, up to systems integration. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform allows to collaboratively reduce time-to-market and evaluate impacts virtually before committing physical resources.

Battery innovators of any size can also leverage our dedicated solutions that bring together the virtual and real worlds of manufacturing, from shop floor planning to operations at any scale, including global, dynamic demand and supply planning.

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Floor Level: First Floor 

We specialise in the development and supply at gigawatt-hour scale, of lithium-ion anode materials based on niobium. Our product, XNO® delivers lithium-ion battery performance highly suited for industrial applications that demand the highest productivity and lowest total cost of ownership.  Powered by XNO® means lithium-ion batteries that can safely fast charge in less than 10 minutes, maintain high energy densities even at extreme temperatures, and deliver high power across a cycle life of more than 10,000 cycles.

Echion operates out of its state-of-the-art develop facilities in Sawston, Cambridge.  With a growing team of scientists and commercial and operational personnel, Echion is ready to support global industries in their transition to net-zero. XNO® is a differentiated battery material providing a technical and commercial advantages in high-value, fast-growing markets, which are not addressed by other anode technologies. XNO® meets the needs of heavy duty, industrial working environments, where end-users require unrivalled levels of safety, and low total cost of ownership, uniquely well.

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Floor Level: First Floor 

With the growing importance and emergence of new solutions for energy storage and mobility, Lithium-ion batteries have become more relevant. Thanks to the increasing demand, research in Lithium-ion batteries has been intense, leading to significant technology improvements regarding the batteries’ capacity, power, and lifetime. Starting with the fabrication of the anode and cathode material, requiring active material, solvents, binders and additives, and the copper and aluminium foils, the production process of a Li-ion battery cell consists of various steps… requiring vacuum technology. Each step has its specific requirements and particularities, which define the quality of the final product, the Li-ion battery at the end of the process.

If you ready to find out how Leybold can help move your batter cell production forward join us at The Faraday Institution Conference 2023 where our experts will be standing by to guide you through evolving your processes to the next level.

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Floor Level: First Floor 

Through chemical, physical, and structural analysis of materials, they improve everything from the energies that power us and the materials we build with, to the medicines that cure us and the foods we enjoy. We partner with many of the world’s biggest companies, universities, and research organizations. They value us not only for the power of our solutions, but also for the depth of our expertise, collaboration, and integrity. With over 2200 employees, we serve the world, and we are part of Spectris plc, the world-leading precision measurements group.

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Floor Level: Floor M

This is why we’ve invested heavily in sourcing and stocking the best equipment and materials needed to accelerate your new energy research and development. From cases to chemicals, custom coatings to battery analysers – we’ve got all the new energy storage materials, consumables and equipment you need.

And that’s not all! We firmly believe that knowledge is power. Our expert team is happy to offer guidance across a wide range of subjects from niche material sourcing to global trade and logistics expertise.

We’re all you need to accelerate your new energy storage research and development.  Power up your research with PI-KEM.

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Floor Level: Floor M

Raman spectroscopy is a non-destructive analytical technique for the chemical and structural characterisation of materials including batteries and battery components. Renishaw’s versatile range of Raman instruments are perfect for fundamental research on battery materials, operando studies on test cells, through to final product quality control and failure analysis.

Renishaw’s inVia™ confocal Raman microscope and Virsa™ Raman analyser are trusted by leading researchers working on battery technology. The inVia microscope offers research-grade performance and ultimate flexibility. The Virsa analyser with its fibre-probe functionality is robust and readily transported between laboratory and manufacturing environments.

Renishaw is a partner you can rely on. Founded in 1973, Renishaw is an award-winning world leader in advanced measurement and manufacturing. With over 4,000 employees and a global network of offices, we will be your long-term partner. We launched our first Raman microscope in 1992 and have been continuously developing our Raman instrumentation ever since. Our spectroscopy products incorporate many patented innovations. Decades of experience show that you can trust our products to deliver accurate results.

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Floor Level: Floor M

This directly affects the overall performance and longevity, alongside with reduced period of safe operation of the battery. In addition, Li reacts with electrolyte, metals and H₂O/O₂ traces, leading to lower ion availability and conductivity.

Identifying and elucidating the reaction mechanisms for both the evolution and consecutive the reaction of gas with the components of the cell, will allow to engineer materials and cell designs that would address the drawbacks of the technology. Although the process of charging and discharging batteries is heavily studied and understood up to a satisfactory degree, gas evolution and aging is a field that is not yet at a point that could provide information of a possible solution. Tracing evolved species at the atomic and molecular scale requires highly sensitive, accurate and selective characterization techniques.

Spectro Inlets offers real time detection with very high sensitivity of volatile species evolved during several cycles of charging and discharging of a Li-ion battery using chip-based Electrochemistry-Mass Spectrometry (EC-MS)⁵. The capability of our technique to be performed in volatile environments, with controlled sample temperature combined with full quantification of the obtained data, strengthens the understanding of SEI formation and degradation of electrode and electrolyte. Furthermore, inert sample transfer from a glove box eliminates the possibility of contamination by atmospheric species.

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Floor Level: Floor M

To serve science, Thermo Fisher Scientific needs to stay ahead of it, we need to anticipate customer needs. We need to constantly think about advancing science, so customers have the freedom to be bolder and more innovative – we are committed to pushing science and technology a step beyond where it is today. Our innovative solutions for electron microscopy, surface analysis and microanalysis help materials science researchers advance their sample characterization to gain deeper insight into the physical and chemical properties of materials from the macroscale to the nanoscale. Our multiscale, multimodal solutions cover a broad range of applications serving customers in academia, government, and industry. Our TEMs, DualBeam™ FIB-SEMs, SEMs, XPS, microanalysis solutions and software, take customers from questions to usable data by combining high-resolution imaging with physical, chemical, elemental, mechanical, and electrical analysis across scales and modes.

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Floor Level: First Floor

For decades, our manufacturing companies have been providing solutions for individual customer requirements by developing sophisticated, precise, and reliable laboratory equipment for sample preparation, heat treatment and analysis in quality and process control. These solutions enable our customers to make progress. We provide them with the means to effectively and reliably design their processes, products, and services to become safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. Together, we make the world a healthier and safer place. This is what we mean when we say: we enable progress. At Verder Scientific we know that building a sustainable relationship is not only about developing great products. It is about listening to what our customers need and then striving to create solutions that make their working lives easier.

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Floor Level: Upper Ground

Their thriving student population enjoy a wide range of courses, an exceptional campus and facilities. As a research-intensive university, they are committed to research that is pioneering in terms of its originality and distinctiveness, significance and rigour. Their vision is to inspire today’s brightest researchers to make a major impact on global society, and to become the leaders of tomorrow in whatever field they pursue. As a founding member of the Universitas 21 global network of research universities, they are home to world-class researchers. The work of their staff and alumni has been recognised with 10 Nobel Prizes, and they continue to lead the field in many of the emerging disciplines of the 21st century. They were England’s first civic university, one where students from all social and cultural backgrounds were accepted on an equal basis, and it is that strong spirit of social responsibility and commitment to community that has allowed them to grow and thrive ever since.

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System currents range from 300nA to 1000A and our latest software is now even more powerful, with functions and variables so that procedures for complex testing can easily be developed.

Please come and see us to find out about our exclusive agreement with AMETEK Scientific Instruments to offer integrated EIS solutions combining Maccor advanced battery test systems with the highest quality impedance analysers from Solartron and Princeton Applied Research.

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Floor Level: Upper Ground

Royce-supported capabilities are available to help you to address research challenges. Access schemes enable students, researchers and SMEs to conduct research investigations. Industrial research collaboration is welcomed and translation activities are further encouraged through the Royce Industrial Collaboration Programme.

Advanced facilities and equipment are available for processing, testing and characterisation of a wide range of materials. At Oxford, The Centre for Energy Materials Research hosts the technology platform for inert handling of energy materials. The capabilities are vital to the investigation of next-generation energy storage solutions. They are closely linked with the complementary suite of electron microscopy tools, mechanical testing and atom probe tomography instruments. Materials experts at the Oxford Materials Characterisation Service further offer characterisation, consultancy and training services. Find out more about the Royce capabilities at the University of Oxford at this link: https://royce.materials.ox.ac.uk/

Across the Royce partnership, a wide range of tools and techniques are available to facilitate and accelerate materials research. Additional energy storage and electrochemical systems facilities are hosted at Royce partners, the Universities of Cambridge, Liverpool, Manchester, and Sheffield, together with Imperial College London. You can explore the equipment catalogue at https://www.royce.ac.uk/

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Floor Level: First Floor

ARC provides an adiabatic testing environment typically leading to full thermal runaway. Thermal abuse, overcharge, controlled-speed nail penetration and short circuit can be carried in the ARC.

IBCx Isothermal Battery Calorimeter for high precision heat measurement and heat capacity determination of cylindrical, pouch and prismatic cells.

uBC Micro Battery Calorimeter with integrated cycler can be used to study stability, performance, efficiency and life cycle of coin cells.

As well as instrumentation, THT offer a commercial sample testing service from their UK laboratory.

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Floor Level: Upper Ground