New In-line Metrology Solution to Improve Battery Safety, Performance

Electrode Coating Analysis New In-line Metrology Solution to Improve Battery Safety, Performance

2024-07-25 Source: Press release Thermo Fisher Scientific 2 min Reading Time

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The Thermo Scientific Linspector Edge In-line Mass Profilometer offers real-time, full-coverage mass loading analysis for battery electrode coating.

Thermo Scientific Linspector Edge In-line Mass Profilometer delivers real-time, full-coverage mass loading analysis for battery electrode coating. (Source: Business Wire) — Thermo Scientific Linspector Edge In-line Mass Profilometer delivers real-time, full-coverage mass loading analysis for battery electrode coating.
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To address the needs of the rapidly growing battery market, Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced the Thermo Scientific Linspector Edge In-line Mass Profilometer, which delivers full-width electrode mass loading measurement and provides battery manufacturers with the data needed to make better, safer batteries, more efficiently. The Linspector Edge analyzer introduces the next generation of metrology capabilities through a new analytical technique, in-line mass profilometry, measuring complete edge-to-edge coating profiles in milliseconds with unprecedented resolution and precision, mentions the company.

Uniform, defect-free coatings are essential for superior battery performance, for the attainment of higher charge densities, faster recharge times, longer operational lifetime, and better reliability. Traditional in-line coating weight measurement gauges use a single spot sensor traversing across the electrode sheet to assess coating quality, but several meters of electrode are produced in the time it takes to complete a single profile scan and much of the electrode goes unmeasured. In contrast, the Linspector Edge In-line Mass Profilometer measures the entire electrode in real-time, at full production speed offering more complete insights for battery manufacturers, adds the firm.

The mass profilometer sets a new benchmark for electrode coating analysis and provides a foundation for higher performance batteries, reduced risk to quality, better process control, and more profitable operation, opines the firm.

Thanks to a greater insight into mass loading of active material on the coating edges and a complete mapping of mass loading on the entire electrode, battery manufacturers can now benefit from previously unobtainable richness of data for production control and full traceability for each electrode patch, stripe, or roll, allowing them to meet increasingly stringent quality requirements for energy storage devices, shares the company.

In the past, the battery industry relied on industry standard coating weight scanning technologies, which typically only inspect the loading on a small fraction of the electrode surface area. Thermo Fisher Scientific's new technology enables the inspection of 100 % of the area of all electrodes manufactured, eliminating blind spots in the data and reducing the risk of defects reaching the final product, concludes the company.

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