Zeta Energy Demonstrates Industry-Leading Progress in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

News provided by

Oct 23, 2023, 16:16 ET

HOUSTON, Oct. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zeta Energy announced today that it has demonstrated a multilayer 300 Wh/kg pouch cell with up to 20 Ah. Zeta Energy's cells use an innovative lithiated vertically-aligned carbon nanotube anode and a Zeta's patented sulfurized carbon cathode. Zeta Energy is the only lithium-sulfur battery company to have received third-party verification that its technology avoids the polysulfide-shuttle effect.

The company also has clear line of sight to batteries that exceed 450 Wh/kg and 800 Wh/L, which it will produce in its pilot plant that is scheduled to be operational in 2024. These metrics make Zeta Energy the front runner in the race to achieve a lower-cost, high cycle-life lithium-sulfur battery. It also is the only company to have a complete battery system (anode and cathode) with a wholly domestic supply chain.

As noted by CEO Tom Pilette, "We demonstrated more than three years ago that our technology stops the polysulfide-shuttle effect in lithium-sulfur batteries, opening up the opportunity for batteries that both have extremely high density and are long lasting. We are seeing incredible progress with our battery development and expect to have batteries that achieve over one thousand cycles with greater than 450 Wh/kg, at a cost of under $60/kWh, commercially available in 2025."

In the last year Zeta Energy's efforts have been focused on scaling up materials manufacturing and refining their production processes. The company introduced a dry process for electrode coating, and the ability to grow vertically aligned carbon nanotubes on both sides of a current collector simultaneously.

About Zeta Energy

Zeta Energy is a US-based privately held company focused on developing and commercializing high-performance, safe, rechargeable batteries that are lower cost and sustainably manufactured. Zeta has an extensive patent portfolio, with over thirty patents and applications, including an exclusive license to patents and patent applications for inventions developed in collaboration with the esteemed Smalley-Curl Institute, NanoCarbon Center and Welch Institute for Advanced Materials at Rice University. Zeta has won prestigious awards for its proprietary carbon nanotube anode and sulfur cathode technology, including awards from ARPA-E and the World Materials Forum. The Company may from time to time disclose public material events via its website at http://www.ZetaEnergy.com or its social media accounts at the following locations:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/zetaenergy
https://twitter.com/ZetaEnergy

www.zetaenergy.com

SOURCE Zeta Energy