San Diego — Maxwell Technologies, a producer of ultracapacitor-based energy storage products, announced on Wednesday it will receive more than $500,000 in state and federal funding for energy storage research and development programs.
Under the grants, Maxwell is collaborating with three U.S. based companies, including Yardney Technical Products, a Connecticut firm founded in 1944 that has obtained federal small business innovation research (SBIR) grants.
All three of the funded programs focus on application of Maxwell’s solvent-free, electrode fabrication process to produce high-performance, low-cost, lithium-ion battery electrode material. In addition, the work will focus on integration of Maxwell’s high power-density ultracapacitors and Yardney’s high energy-density batteries for optimized energy storage solutions for transportation, industrial and other applications.
Maxwell will also collaborate on energy storage technology development with two Ohio-based materials producers that have been awarded grants from the Ohio Third Frontier program.
One of the Ohio-based projects involves testing and eva luation of advanced activated carbons produced by Calgon Carbon Corp. in Columbus, with a goal of establishing a domestic source of high-performance, low-cost carbon for ultracapacitors. The second involves testing and eva luation of new graphene material produced by Nanotek