Canadian battery science is about to get a turbocharge with the creation of the country’s first university-based battery prototyping and testing facility. Called the Canadian Battery Innovation Centre, the new leading-edge lab is projected to open in Fall 2025 in Dalhousie’s Sir James Dunn Building.
The facility will be a game-changer for the university’s battery researchers, allowing them to rapidly envision, produce and test new batteries. It will also be a magnet for industry in urgent need of the sophisticated equipment and the expertise to operate it.
Currently, battery scientists in academia and startups are required to send designs for new batteries they want to study to third parties outside Canada for manufacture. Drs. Michael Metzger and Chongyin Yang, the Dalhousie battery researchers championing the innovation centre, say it will vastly accelerate the speed of experimentation and innovation — turning a process that currently takes months into days.
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