Lyten Producing Lithium-Sulfur Batteries At Greater Than 90% Yield

<p><strong>SAN JOSE<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Lyten&comma; a supermaterials application company and leader in lithium-sulfur battery technology&comma; announced it is consistently surpassing 90 percent yield from its automated battery production line&comma; confirming the manufacturability of its lithium-sulfur battery utilizing a sulfur cathode and lithium metal anode&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The lithium-sulfur manufacturing performance has been achieved utilizing standard lithium-ion manufacturing equipment and processes&period; The conversion of lithium-ion equipment to produce lithium-sulfur batteries in Lyten’s pilot facility required 6 weeks and less than 2&percnt; of the total capital cost&period; This confirms Lyten’s ability to rapidly scale by converting existing Li-ion gigafactories to lithium-sulfur with minimal cost and time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Lyten now has demonstrated that lithium-sulfur can be built in standard cylindrical and pouch formats&comma; can be scaled to automated manufacturing&comma; and can be done on the same equipment and processes already being used around the globe to manufacture legacy lithium-ion&comma;” said Dan Cook&comma; Lyten CEO and Co-Founder&period; &&num;8220&semi;The result is a significant reduction in the manufacturing scale up risk for a locally sourced&comma; locally manufactured battery that can leapfrog the performance and cost of existing lithium ion and future solid-state batteries&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lyten’s lithium-sulfur battery chemistry utilizes no NMP &lpar;N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone&rpar; in the cathode manufacturing process&comma; eliminating the potential health&comma; safety&comma; and environmental impacts of the highly toxic solvent standard in today’s lithium-ion batteries&period; Additionally&comma; the lithium-sulfur battery cell has proven to be highly tolerant of metallic contamination&comma; significantly reducing the capital equipment and operational costs associated with preventing metal contamination in today’s leading battery chemistries&comma; namely NMC and LFP&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;To achieve mass market adoption&comma; lithium-sulfur must be able to be manufactured at enormous scale and at a price immediately on par or better than today’s already scaled up lithium-ion batteries&period; The complete elimination of NMP and ability to tolerate metallic contamination and defects creates a cell that is highly manufacturable&period; Lower cost production that is better for the environment is a win every way you look at it&comma;” added Celina Mikolajczak&comma; Chief Battery Technology Officer at Lyten&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lyten’s lithium-sulfur battery contains no nickel&comma; cobalt&comma; manganese&comma; or graphite in the cathode and anode&comma; enabling an entirely locally sourced and manufactured battery&period; Lyten expects to achieve 98&percnt;&plus; yields at scale and will begin delivering commercial lithium-sulfur cells for non-EV customers in aerospace and government applications in 2024 from its San Jose pilot production facility&period; Lyten is executing engineering and design&comma; procuring equipment&comma; and evaluating locations to rapidly scale up lithium-sulfur manufacturing to meet growing interest from EV&comma; trucking&comma; space&comma; aerospace&comma; and government customers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lyten&comma; founded in 2015&comma; is led by a group of experienced executives from across Automotive&comma; Energy&comma; Batteries&comma; Semiconductors&comma; Manufacturing and Defense&period; The company lists more than 415 patents granted or pending and is currently manufacturing Lyten 3D Graphene material and its applications in San Jose&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;