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BASF Research Press Conference


                                                                          is therefore able to cater to individual
                                                                          customer needs,” informed Dr. Urtel.

                                                                             BASF researchers also use a sophis-
                                                                          ticated  production  process  for  CAMs
                                                                          to reduce the amount of expensive raw
                                                                          materials,  such  as  nickel  and  cobalt,
                                                                          without  negatively  affecting  the  bat-
                                                                          tery’s performance. In addition, BASF
                                                                          continuously works to improve the
                                                                          energy  and  resource  effi ciency  of  the
                                                                          individual process  steps and relies on
                                                                          energy from renewable sources.

                                                                             An important lever for making bat-
                                                                          tery  materials  more  sustainable  is  the
                                                                          increased use of recycled metals, such
                                                                          as  lithium,  nickel,  cobalt  and  manga-
                                                                          nese.  “Improving  the  yield  of  these
                                                                          metals  in  recycling  processes,  while
                                 Battery materials                        reducing the use of chemicals, is another
       These include the  composition of  the  tributions, and adjustments to porosity   focus area of BASF’s battery materials
       materials, various particle sizes and dis-  and surface properties.  The company   research,” said Dr. Urtel.



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