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"A spinout company from a Swedish university says it is on the cusp of
commercialising an energy-storing carbon fibre technology that could lead to
what would be a world-first effort at a structural battery.
Sinonus last week appointed a new CEO in Markus Zetterström, an executive from
the world’s largest bearings manufacturer SKF Group, to lead the
commercialisation of its technology.
The company launched in 2022, a year after researchers from the university
found a way to apply their carbon fibre battery to the real world.
The technology, which uses the crystalline structures within carbon fibre to
store energy, has been proposed for aircraft, electric vehicles, and now in the
massive blades of wind turbines to store excess power.
“Sinonus has developed an amazing carbon fiber composite that doubles as a
battery,” Zetterström said on LinkedIn.
“By substituting part of the structural material in systems/applications to our
multipurpose composite, it’s possible to add electrical storage capacity at
sustained weight and volume, or to decrease system weight and volume at
sustained battery capacity (and of course some combination thereof).”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
