{"id":182792,"date":"2024-02-16T01:23:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/unleashing-the-power-batman-project-revolutionizes-battery-manufacturing"},"modified":"2024-02-16T01:23:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:23:04","slug":"unleashing-the-power-batman-project-revolutionizes-battery-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/unleashing-the-power-batman-project-revolutionizes-battery-manufacturing","title":{"rendered":"Unleashing the Power: BatMan Project Revolutionizes Battery Manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unleashing-the-power-batman-project-revolutionizes-battery-manufacturing3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gotham City\u2019s Dark Knight boasts an impressive collection of technological marvels, but the superhero scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE\u2019s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have cutting-edge capabilities of their own.<\/p>\n<p>A recent battery manufacturing project\u2014affectionately called BatMan \u2014has developed a novel laser patterning process to alter the microstructure of battery electrode materials. Funded by DOE\u2019s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office, this project brings together expert minds from NREL, Clarios, Amplitude Laser Group, and Liminal Insights. This revolutionized manufacturing process could unlock significant improvements to electrified transportation, leading the charge toward a brighter and more sustainable future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBatMan builds on NREL\u2019s expertise using laser ablation, advanced computational models, and materials characterization to address key challenges in battery manufacturing,\u201d said Bertrand Tremolet de Villers, project co-lead and senior scientist in NREL\u2019s Thin Film and Manufacturing Sciences group. \u201cThis new, high-throughput laser patterning process\u2014demonstrated at scale with state-of-the-art roll-to-roll manufacturing techniques\u2014uses laser pulses to quickly and precisely modify and optimize electrode structures, offering a massive leap in battery capabilities with minimal added manufacturing cost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotham City\u2019s Dark Knight boasts an impressive collection of technological marvels, but the superhero scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE\u2019s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have cutting-edge capabilities of their own. A recent battery manufacturing project\u2014affectionately called BatMan \u2014has developed a novel laser patterning process to alter the microstructure of battery electrode materials. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}