NAWA Technologies' Ultra Fast Carbon battery: the next generation of the ultracapacitor

[Music] my name is Enrique Appa CEO of Nava technologies it's located here in south of France in the region known as province not only a beautiful place to arrive to work in the morning but also working on some exciting technology changing the future of energy storage now a technology is developing a brand new material for storing electricity with this material we are able to manufacture some innovative super capacitors and also electrode for the next generation of lithium batteries if we take the analogy of athletics for instance and their track pass-through would be a sprinter it will be recharged very fast and can be discharged very fast our lithium battery is much more like a marathon runner so what we are doing at Gnawa is something that is exactly in between with our technology we can have 5 times more power and 5 times more energy than the existing technology is out there we can a charge and discharge our technology in a matter of seconds and we can do a million cycles so you have something that can last a long time and can charge and discharge very fast the basis of this technology start with the material the material is made of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes unlike any other technology which is basically based on powders our material is like a kind of cage which is made of trillions of all vertically aligned carbon nanotubes a nanotube is a tiny cube of carbon with a very small diameter typically in our case it's 5 nanometers and a very long length 100 micron so it's a little bit like playing with a spaghetti that has one kilometer long so you can have trillion of this nanotubes in a square centimeter we have developed a very specific and patented method to produce our electrode based on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes all this advantage allow us to demonstrate and develop a very specific coating process to grow vertically lank about nanotubes on the two-sided of an aluminum or a copper foil what we use is abundantly available and its natural we're not using any materials that you can say our negative environment lab spec like cobalt that you have in lithium-ion batteries or materials that you can consider to be rare earth materials so they're not abundantly available this technology can go very very many places power tools automated guided vehicles which is what you have in logistics and material handling and warehouses to automotive applications all those devices need some power burst and the ability to recoup energy another advantage of the ultra-fast carbon battery is is that it's very durable so you could see that this technology can be used in space in the oceans perhaps in drilling applications as well and will not be affected by the temperature and the extreme environments that it's exposed to another market that's really taking off at the moment is what they call the Internet of Things this is of course many different applications but over the area that we see a lot of opportunities anywhere there's any communication especially within tracking and security applications we are investing in the production equipment to have a production line operational by 2020 and delivering off of that line hundreds of thousands of themselves we have a project to develop what we call a structural battery with the idea to integrate a storage function into a composite material the battery is directly into the structure into the shell of your car into the shell of your iPhone or into the shell of the wing of a plane [Music]

Channel: NAWA Technologies

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Keywords: science, ultracapacitor, supercapacitor, ultra capacitor, carbon nanotube, nawa technologies, energy storage, battery, ultra fast carbon battery, start-up, technology, lithium ion

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Length: 4min 21sec (261 seconds)

Published: Tue May 14 2019