Glatt Powder Synthesis in the joint project “SiKo”

Silicon composite anode materials – Tailored materials and processes optimized for performance and cost

The “SiKo” project aims to develop and produce improved carbon-silicon composite anode materials (C-Si materials) for lithium-ion batteries (LIB).

Through an interdisciplinary and holistic material and process development approach, various innovative processes for the production of C-Si materials for LIB are being developed in the project and evaluated both technologically via the performance of the materials and economically via the process costs. The target processes are characterized by, among other things, a lower number of individual processing steps. This enables the economical production of carbon-silicon composite materials with unique properties and improved performance. In the project, various plants or reactors for thermal, chemical and mechanical material and powder processing are being investigated for this purpose and new and promising process combinations in material development are being advanced. The developed materials are structurally analyzed, processed into electrodes and validated in LIB cells of different formats.