awarded the Australian Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation 2020.
Gelion is a global renewable-energy storage innovator. By designing leading-edge battery technology for stationary and mobile energy, the Company supports the transition to a sustainable economy while delivering value for customers and investors.
The Gelion Endure battery uses low-cost, abundant raw materials and is based on a chemistry that is highly resistant to fire.
With applications in agriculture, mining, water management and irrigation the battery is highly adaptable for off-grid use.
The batteries are also scalable, using lead-acid battery manufacturing technology, and the Company expects to develop megawatt-hour capacity for large-scale infrastructure, including for solar and wind farms.
In addition to investing in the growth of its zinc-bromide technology, the Company will use funding to develop its mobile energy division to enhance existing lithium-ion and lithium-sulphur battery technologies used in electric vehicles and the emerging market in electric aviation.
For the mobile market, Gelion’s technology pipeline includes:
- Highly tuneable, low-cost silicon nanoparticle additives for next-generation advanced lithium-ion batteries, which are safer and have higher energy density.
- A low-cost additive, which increases the lifetime of lithium-sulphur batteries by more than four times, delivering up to three times higher energy by weight than conventional lithium-ion batteries.
Using additive technology developed by its R&D team, which cooperates closely with scientists at the School of Chemistry and the University of Sydney Nano Institute, Gelion will develop and license additives for advanced lithium-silicon and lithium-sulphur technologies for ultra-high-density batteries to extend the cycle-life and safety of mobile energy storage.
