By ESS news
Sinonus, a spin-out from Chalmers Technical University (CTU) in Sweden, has developed a unique carbon fiber material that can store electrical energy, enabling energy storage in existing structures for a variety of industries – from electric vehicles and aircraft to wind turbine blades.
The company was founded in 2022, a year after CTU researchers found a way to apply their carbon fiber composites to real-world applications. Currently, Sinonus says it is on the verge of commercializing its technology.
“Sinonus has developed an amazing carbon fiber composite that also serves as a battery,” Markus Zetterström wrote on LinkedIn when he accepted the role of CEO of the company a month ago. “By replacing some of the structural material in systems/applications with our multifunctional composite, it is possible to add electrical storage capacity while maintaining weight and volume, or reduce system weight and volume while maintaining battery capacity (and of course a combination thereof). ”
The energy density of the material depends on the required structural and electrical properties of the application.
“You could say that the higher the structural needs/specifications, the lower the energy density becomes (and vice versa). While maintaining good structural capacity, the possible energy density is approximately 25-50% of that of a conventional lithium-ion battery at the current technology level,” says Zetterström. ESS news.
Sinonus has already demonstrated the technology’s potential by replacing AAA batteries in low-power products in its laboratory. The goal is to expand the technology to larger applications such as IoT devices, and eventually to drones, computers, larger vehicles and even aircraft.
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