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Overview
Our technologies enable every step of battery development, from raw material extraction and processing and quality assurance in the production line, to material recovery in battery recycling and development of next-generation batteries. Power your advancements with our comprehensive portfolio of analytical instruments, software, and related tools and technologies, including inductively coupled plasma-optimal emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), high-pressure ion chromatography (HPIC), and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry systems.
Our analytical solutions empower your lab to be more productive and gain more insights to improve safety and longevity, decrease charging time, and boost power output. Our chromatography and mass spectrometry solutions offer:
- Electrolyte composition and purity confirmation
- Analysis of electrolyte degradation products
- Superior stability for quantifying major elements, including lithium, nickel, manganese, iron, phosphorus and cobalt
- Characterization of battery aging and performance
- Reproducible, high-quality results
- Fast, robust, accurate and precise detection of trace-level impurity elements
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From research and development, through quality control of raw materials and components, to battery testing and recycling, Thermo Fisher Scientific provides comprehensive analytical technologies, service and support to help you build better batteries.
Resources for battery scientists
Research and development
Processes: Novel cathode active materials (CAMs) research, electrolyte, cathode/ anode material degradation studies, exploring battery material recycling methods/techniques, development of next generation batteries (solid state, sodium)
Analytical need: Material composition and purity characterization, failure analysis
Raw material quality control
Processes: Mined material processing, refined product purity analysis, quality assurance and control
Analytical need: Bulk process control and quality control (QC), Mineral, ore and brine analysis for lithium and impurity element content
Cell component assembly and analysis
Processes: Manufacturing of battery cells and/or cell arrays. electrolyte composition confirmation
Analytical need: Ensure quality design, process control, in-line inspection, failure analysis and material rejection, composition measurement, detection and quantification of elemental impurities, degradation studies, research and routine QA/QC measurement
Battery testing
Processes: Failure analysis and rejection, battery aging, environmental and electrical studies
Analytical need: Analysis of degradation products, cathode material compounds, electrolytes, separator degradation products
Battery recycling
Processes: Material recovery, inspection and reuse, battery recycling
Analytical need: Inspection, characterization
Featured technologies for your battery manufacturing lab
As lithium-ion batteries become more advanced, so do the manufacturing processes required to create them. We offer a broad range of tools and instruments, including ion chromatography, elemental analysis, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, that enable the production of advanced battery technology.
Ion chromatography (IC)
IC provides insights into the fundamental processes and degradation mechanisms in lithium-ion batteries to ensure product quality during manufacturing.
Trace elemental analysis (TEA)
TEA measures impurities that can degrade the charge-carrying capacity of batteries, including the composition and purity of their lithium salts.
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)
GC and GC-MS systems can identify and quantify compounds formed during electrolyte aging, providing new insights into lithium-ion battery degradation.
Enabling advances in battery technologies
Discover additional tools, instruments, and services to improve your battery value chain.
Instrument service and support
Maximize your instrument uptime with superior services and support.
There’s no time for downtime in your lab. Customers worldwide who depend on maximum availability of lab instruments for critical operations choose the Unity Lab Services Premier service plan to minimize disruption and stay focused on production.
Features of the Premier service plan include:
- Two-business-day, on-site response time for corrective maintenance to minimize downtime
- Unlimited enhanced technical support with immediate response, featuring remote resolution of more than 35% of issues with our remote repair services
- Proactive annual preventive instrument maintenance that increases uptime
- Semiannual service consultations delivered by highly experienced and certified service managers
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