March 17, 2023 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Nova Scotia primarily based Meta Supplies Inc. is creating two new merchandise that it says will make lithium batteries safer and extra environment friendly, whereas extending electrical car (EV) vary and making battery provide chains extra sustainable.
Nova Scotia-based nanotech firm Meta Materials Inc. (MMAT:NASDAQ; MMAX:CSE; MMAT:FSE) has been issued one other U.S. patent directed to lithium batteries.
META now has 501 lively patent paperwork, of which 315 have issued. The corporate is creating two new merchandise that it says will make lithium batteries safer and extra environment friendly, whereas extending electrical car (EV) vary and making battery provide chains extra sustainable.
The patent is directed to batteries that use novel separators, together with META’s nanoporous ceramic NPORE® separators.
META can also be making use of its futuristic know-how to the communications, well being and wellness, aerospace, automotive, and clear vitality sectors. It is attracting consideration from analysts and customers and made a splash at this yr’s Client Electronics Present with its NANOWEB® clear EMI shielding movie, which guarantees to clear up your microwave’s window to higher inform when your leftovers are prepared.
“META is on the early stage of what we count on will probably be a major progress curve as its applied sciences are included into lots of as we speak’s merchandise in a variety of industries,” analyst Graham Mattison of Water Tower Analysis wrote in a March 14 analysis observe.
“The corporate’s rising portfolio of applied sciences, together with its manufacturing capabilities, partnerships, and deep patent portfolio, give META a aggressive benefit as it really works to penetrate addressable markets which are collectively properly in extra of US$50 billion,” he wrote.
The corporate will exhibit its battery applied sciences on the Worldwide Battery Seminar & Exhibit in Orlando, Florida, subsequent week. Along with NPORE® nanoporous ceramic separators, it is going to even be displaying its NCORE™ metal-polymer present collectors.
“Battery fires proceed to be a standard downside throughout all purposes, from cell units to e-bikes and EVs,” META Chief Govt Officer George Palikaras stated. “Each of our new merchandise have options that assist forestall thermal runaways.”
The Catalyst: ‘An Preferrred Resolution’
The patent is directed at lithium batteries the place the anode, or adverse electrode, contains a dispersion or “moist” layer of the anode supplies. A second associated patent is predicted to be issued shortly, the corporate stated.
“NPORE® gives excellent warmth resistance in contrast with standard polymer separators, which present important shrinkage at elevated temperatures as a result of melting of the polymer,” Mattison wrote. “Even when the polymers are coated with ceramic particles, the polymers stay vulnerable to deformation underneath high-temperature circumstances.
Testing confirmed that samples outperformed these containing a business polymer separator, “delivering greater capability retention via 1,000 cycles at elevated temperatures of 60 (levels Celsius).”
“We see NPORE® as a great resolution in ionic liquid-based lithium-ion batteries designed for high-temperature purposes equivalent to aerospace and protection, renewable vitality storage, and industrial gear equivalent to mining and drilling instruments,” Mattison wrote.
Pushed by the EV growth, the lithium-ion battery market is predicted to achieve US$135 billion by 2031, in keeping with a report by Markets and Markets. Future Market Insights Inc. said the worldwide lithium-ion battery separator market could possibly be price US$3.2 billion by 2032.
Dr. Steve Carlson, govt vp of META, is the inventor of the brand new know-how patented, his 54th U.S. patent. META stated he was chosen because the 2022 Inventor of the 12 months by the New York Mental Property Legislation Affiliation.
Extra Purposes for Nanotech
Developed first within the Nineteen Sixties, design and manufacturing capabilities caught as much as metamaterials within the 2000s.
META is utilizing them to develop nanotechnology merchandise like self-deicing and defogging automobile and truck headlights and home windows, see-through antennas, augmented actuality glasses that appear to be common glasses, and particular eyewear that protects pilots’ eyes from laser strikes.
Going into the CES present, META was named a 2023 Innovation Awards honoree going into the present for its NANOWEB® clear movie to clear up microwave home windows. [OWNERSHIP_CHART-10218]
A microwave show, with its fully clear window, drew large crowds on the convention flooring. On Day 2 of the present, META was the most talked about brand at CES in keeping with social media development tracker BuzzRadar.
NANOWEB® can also be used to de-ice auto sensors and manufacture antennas and electrochromic lenses for augmented actuality and 5G reflector movies.
Possession and Share Construction
About 15% of META is held by administration and insiders, in keeping with Yahoo Finance. Amongst them is President and Chief Govt Officer George Palikaras, who owns 8.3% or 29.9 million shares, Reuters reported.
Yahoo stated about 11% of the corporate is held by establishments. A few of the prime holders are State Avenue International Advisors (US), with 4% or 14.49 million shares, and Nova Scotia Innovation Corp., with 3.45% or 12.5 million shares, in keeping with Reuters.
The remainder, 74%, is retail.
The corporate has a market cap of $182.1 million, with 362.2 million shares excellent and 307.5 million free-floating. It trades in a 52-week vary of US$2.34 and US$0.48.
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