Cobalt is an expensive key material and is mainly imported from outside the United States. With the booming development of electric vehicles, there will be certain supply risks in the future. Cabot’s R&D projects aim to explore more sustainable, affordable alternative materials, ultimately improving the accessibility of electric vehicle technology.

　　The U.S. Department of Energy has invested in 42 projects to support advanced vehicle technologies that can enable affordable mobility services, enhance energy security, reduce dependence on critical raw materials, and thereby enhance U.S. economic growth. The U.S. Department of Energy allocated $80 million in funding, of which nearly $32 million was used for research and development of battery and vehicle electrification innovations. Cabot received $2.9 million of it to develop low-cobalt lithium-ion battery cathodes. Aerosol manufacturing technology.

　　Miodrag Oljaca, technical director of Cabot's energy materials department, said that the company has established its position in the battery industry through its conductive additive formula and aluminas used in cathodes and separators. The company is eager to use its innovative processing technology and material expertise to further realize technological innovation in new-generation batteries, realize low-cobalt batteries or low-cobalt cathode formulations, and promote low-cost, sustainable electric vehicle batteries, energy storage equipment and Production of other applications.

　　Cabot will collaborate on projects with researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and SAFT. The former will provide assistance in the synthesis of low-cobalt cathode compounds, while the latter will provide assistance in battery manufacturing, aiming to verify the performance of the new low-cobalt cathode formula.

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