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Planar Energy Devices Licenses Separator Technology for Large-Format Li-ion Batteries

Posted on September 11, 2008

In a licensing agreement with Policell Technologies Inc., Planar Energy Devices Inc., has acquired technology and manufacturing rights for a new generation of safe, large-format prismatic lithium-ion batteries based on a new bondable nano-composite separator technology.Planar, a spinout of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), licenses thin-film battery technology from NREL and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (earlier post) and has two product lines under development: PowerPlane, solid-state thin-film Li-ion batteries; and PowerBlade, large-format prismatic cells in which the Policell...

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