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Strategic Partnership with Max Planck Institute
Strategic Partnership with Max Planck Institute.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n27 March 2025\nGelion plc (\"Gelion\", the \"Company\" or the \"Group\")\nStrategic Partnership with Max Planck Institute\nGelion to leverage MPI's breakthrough in Next-Generation Sulfur Batteries\nGelion plc (AIM: GELN), the global energy storage innovator, is pleased to announce a strategic cooperation agreement with the Max Planck Institute (MPI), Potsdam, to develop high-power, high-cycle life sulfur batteries with high energy densities.\nHighlights\n· The partnership brings together Gelion's advanced battery technology designs with MPI's breakthrough nano-confined carbon/sulfur composite cathode[#] and anode material technologies;\n· The novel sulfur composite technology has been successfully tested by MPI in sodium-sulfur (Na-S) cells, demonstrating both long cycle life (many hundreds of cycles) and high-power capabilities (10C), highlighting its potential for use in long duration stationary storage as well as EVs, leveraging off its low-cost materials and its fast-charging characteristics (below 10 minutes);\n· Initial testing relevant to Gelion's lithium-sulfur (Li-S) technology (energy density of +400 Wh/kg) has also shown great promise and the technology is expected to make a substantive positive contribution to cycle life and power characteristics;\n· The agreement enables Gelion to integrate the technologies, designs and expertise of both parties to fully demonstrate MPI's nano-confined materials - initially in coin and then in larger, commercially relevant pouch cell formats - for both Na-S and Li-S batteries;\n· Under the agreement, both parties will formally combine their intellectual property (IP), with Gelion granted an exclusive option to acquire exclusive commercial rights to any jointly developed IP and relevant background IP;\n· The board of Gelion believes that this collaboration aligns seamlessly with Gelion's sulfur battery strategy and significantly accelerates its pathway to commercialisation.\nMPI's data has demonstrated charge and discharge rates down to below 10 minutes, with Na-S batteries at lifetimes well in excess of many hundreds of cycles and at capacities that suggest achievable energy den...