As the world rapidly shifts toward clean, electrically powered mobility, battery producers are searching for materials that combine higher energy density with longer lifetime.
Silicon offers enormous potential as an anode material, yet challenges remain around volume expansion and structural stability for a larger-scale adoption.
E-magy is developing nano-porous silicon anode materials that overcome these limitations, setting a new benchmark in battery performance. To support this development, E-magy supplied raw materials to OCAS, where the Metal Sample Production (MSP) team melted them into Si–metal alloys with controlled process parameters. Two different alloy variants were produced and evaluated for density, microstructure, and reproducibility.
The results provided by OCAS brought valuable insights to E-magy’s R&D activities and served as an important foundation for their upcoming CAPEX investment. Thanks to this pre-development work, their new equipment can now be commissioned faster and with the right processing parameters, significantly accelerating the scale-up from laboratory to industrial level.
This collaboration is a great example of how OCAS supports industrial partners in developing new materials and processes, bridging metallurgical expertise with advanced battery technology to advance the transition toward clean, efficient electric mobility.
