3d printed batteries
GM Leads $39M Series B for 3D Printed Battery Startup Addionics
GM Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Detroit auto giant, has co-led a $39 million Series B round into Addionics, an Israel- and UK-based company that makes 3D current…
Biden Admin Announces Over $6 Billion in Funding for Battery and Chip Advanced Manufacturing in November
In a development that has become routine for the Biden administration, the White House announced a total of more than $6 billion in new funding opportunities for advanced manufacturing applications…
TPM Launches New 3D Printing Lab in the Heart of the Southeast’s Advanced Manufacturing Hub
On June 1, TPM, a digitization solutions company based in Greenville, South Carolina, opened its new Additive Manufacturing (AM) Lab, also in Greenville. TPM sells hardware, software, and materials for…
3D Printed Battery Startup Sakuu Partners with Livent Corporation for Printable Lithium
Sakuu Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based startup specializing in solutions for 3D printed batteries, announced that it is collaborating with lithium producer Livent Corporation on a printable lithium formulation. The product,…
UTEP Joins NASA Project to 3D Print Batteries in Space with Lunar Regolith
Hot on the heels of previous federal grants to develop space technologies, like mining water on the Moon, the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has joined a project…
Sakuu Announces Successful 3D Printing of Next-Gen Batteries
Silicon Valley startup Sakuu, a specialist in additive manufacturing (AM) for next-generation batteries, announced that, since December, 2022, the company has consistently been able to use its Kavian AM platform…
3D Printing News Briefs, February 11, 2023: Training, Gigafactories, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re starting with training, as nScrypt introduced its nStructor trainer. Moving on, Farsoon and toolcraft are collaborating on laser powder bed fusion systems, and…
AMS Focus: 3D Printing in Transportation
The past decade or so of investment in additive manufacturing (AM) has, in large part, been a transportation play. It wouldn’t be going too far to say that the entire…
3D Printing Firm 6K to Make Battery Materials with ONE
In addition to its efforts making metal powders for 3D printing, 6K dedicates its energy to the energy sector itself. Through 6K Energy, the Massachusetts startup produces materials for lithium-ion…
3D Printed Electrodes Could Make Lithium Batteries Cheaper
Now that additive manufacturing (AM) is being applied to an increasing number of energy applications, the technology has truly begun demonstrating the potential for revolutionizing the efficiency of power generation….
Blackstone Launches 3D Printed Lithium Batteries with Established Partners in Tow
Swiss company Blackstone Resources AG (SWX; symbol BLS, ISIN CH0460027110, WKN 460027110) has announced that it has demonstrated its battery 3D printing technology before the press and is opening its…
First Lithium Solid State Battery Produced by 3D Printing Startup Sakuu
Bay Area startup Sakuu Corporation has reached the first step in fulfilling its promise to 3D printing solid-state batteries (SSBs). The company has announced that it has produced a 3Ah…
Battery 3D Printing Firm Considers Publicly Traded U.S. Branch
Blackstone Resources AG (SWX: BLS) has announced that it is exploring the possibility of opening a U.S. branch that would be publicly traded. The firm, which is currently traded on…
Sakuu to Release Multi-Material, Multi-Process Battery 3D Printer
Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming a more common part of the public lexicon every day—I have at least one friend who drives one, and more car charging stations are popping…
3D Printed Batteries: Powering Our Future?
3D printed batteries have been an area of interest for us in the 3D printing industry for a number of years now. Not often discussed, it is something that is…
3D Printed Solid State Lithium Batteries: Safer, Less Expensive, Higher Energy Density
There’s nothing worse on Christmas morning than when your kid opens a present to find a shiny, noisy, lights-blinking toy with the words “BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED” stamped across the front…
NASA Awards Contract to Build 3D Printed Batteries in Space
I was recently playing a game of Trivial Pursuit with my parents, and a question came up that I was sure my husband would know the answer to; so, in…
Quasi-Solid-State 3D Printed Battery Features Improved Stability & Density
3D printing is continually associated with the energy industry, from wind turbines to fuel cells and a variety of different casings for batteries. Now, researchers from Singapore and China are…
China: 3D Printing Supercapacitors with Graphene Oxide Ink
In ‘Highly concentrated graphene oxide ink for facile 3D printing of supercapacitors,’ international researchers Shangwen Ling, Wenbin Kang, Shanwen Tao, and Chuhong Zhang delve further into the fabrication of 3D…
Kansas State University: 3D Freeze Printing Used to Create Batteries
3D design and printing can be integrated into nearly any industry today, but researchers around the world persist in using it to harness energy, and especially for storage—as in the…
Clemson Researchers Use 3D Printing to Solve Pesky Battery Issues By Printing Ceramic Electrolyzers
We’re all familiar with that highly inconvenient moment of finding out your phone battery is dead (or worse, that the charger cord or cube is no longer functional for some…
Researchers 3D Print a New Variety of Zinc Ion Battery Shapes for Wearable Devices
With the development of flexible wearable devices comes the need for new battery shapes, as most batteries are currently limited to spherical or rectangular shapes. These shapes do not use…
Researchers Explore 3D Printing Embedded PLA Batteries Using Fused Deposition Modeling
We rely on many different types of energy sources to get through the day for our mobile power needs, making batteries a big industry. Researchers are continuing to look for…
3D Printing Used to Create Better Lithium-Ion Batteries
You’ve likely needed to use lithium-ion batteries for at least one device at some point. They can be a pain to replace when they run out of juice, and though…
