Get Winning Electrolytes Faster
With a 400+ molecule catalog and extensive testing, Octet zeros in on the best-fit additive candidates for your system.
The electrolyte team you need.
We’re here for aqueous electrolytes – and fast innovation.
Harness our team of PhDs with extensive expertise in multiple chemistries, nine years of aqueous electrolyte learnings, and a vast catalog – for an accelerated path to additives that:
- Increase capacity, efficiency, and cycle life
- Solve challenges including gassing, dendrites, and shape change
- Outperform on KPIs
Why Partner With Octet
- 400+ additives across numerous chemical families. Unmatched additive selection to find the exact molecule for your battery system and most critical KPIs. All our molecules are simple, economical, non-hazardous and easily procured through secure supply chains.
- Ultra-efficient process. Our streamlined testing evaluates over 10x the number of additives most customers can in the same timeframe. All our additives are optimized for quick implementation – no hard material changes needed.
- Tailored to your battery. Your technology is wholly unique. That’s why we design additives specifically for your system. We optimize for a host of performance-impacting factors – from anode architecture, to alloys, to existing electrolyte formula.
A Catalog Built for Performance
All of our 400+ molecules are designed to outperform in the real-world conditions of your battery, your deployment, and your business – meeting exceptional standards for:
Safety. We only consider molecules that will not add hazards to your battery – in storage, transit, or disposal.
Solubility. We ensure additives will go into solution in your electrolyte, and stay in solution during operation and on the shelf.
Stability. Life in a battery is rough. We conduct thorough stability testing to ensure candidate molecules can hold up, whether it’s in sulfuric acid or 10M KOH.
Scalability. All of our molecules are designed from abundant, economical, and globally available materials that are shielded from supply chain risk.
Testing Philosophy
How we design our collaboration
- Test for the mechanism behind performance. We map electrolyte behaviors to chemical properties to know precisely what parameters to optimize, and how.
- Fit the system. We test to confirm that our molecules are fully compatible with the dopants, catalysts, separators, and all other components of your specific technology.
- Divide the labor. By coordinating your system-level tests with our targeted analyses, we get to the best additives faster, together. We test specific parameters in our lab, pass candidates to you to test in-system, and then gather extensive data to refine additives based on test outcomes.
Each testing round is designed to yield a 10% or higher boost in at least one critical KPI.
Rapid Throughput
In a typical 6 month partnership we can:
- Screen 60 potential additives
- Test across 4 -5 different methods
- Deliver 3 -5 highly promising additive candidates, specifically tailored for your system
- Assemble 800 candidate datasets to refine additives further.
Over 30 High-Precision Test Types
Our electrochemical, chemical, and material tests pinpoint the best options from hundreds of configurations – and optimize with minor adjustments with outsized impact.
| Electrochemical | Chemical | Material |
|---|---|---|
| Linear Scan Voltammetry Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Oxygen Evolution Reaction Discharge Impedance Cyclic Voltammetry Additive Stability Cathode Compatibility Coulombic Efficiency Plating/Dendrite Suppression Cycling Analysis Tafel Analysis Galvanostatic Discharge Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Polarization On Charge/discharge Capacity Degradation | Chemical Stability NMR Mass Spectroscopy UV-Vis Absorption FTIR Chemical Aging Studies PH Studies Solubility Studies (different Concentrations, States Of Charge, Or Temperatures) | Optical Microscopy Scanning Electron Microscopy X-Ray Diffraction EDAX Dynamics SIMS Static Gas Testing Gravimetric Analysis Other Material Compatibility Studies |