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Yonkers, New York October 14, 2020 Alpha En Corporation, with its patented technology of electroplating thin lithium metal films and its unique, pre-lithiated anode technology, boosting lithium ion battery performance between 10% – 20%, today announced that EnerSys (NYSE: ENS) has agreed to fund an initial 3 month exploratory project for its potential use in Aeronautics and Aerospace applications. Alpha-En’s pre-lithiation process enables increased cell capacity by pre-loading the anode structure with lithium, consistent with minimizing and offsetting irreversible first cycle capacity loss, without added cathode mass, volume, or cost.

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Yonkers, New York 7/21/2020 alpha-En Corp, with its patented technology of  electroplating  lithium metal films, today announced that it has demonstrated  the  application of its core technology to pre-lithiate composite graphite  anode laminates in the laboratory scale, which led to considerably improved performance of existing lithium ion batteries in terms of delivered capacity (10-20%).

Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) typically show significant irreversible loss of active lithium (10-20%) during the first charge cycle due to the inevitable formation of a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer as a result of electrolyte reduction over anode surface.

Since, LIBs are capacity limited by the amount of lithium incorporated in the starting expensive cathode component, the first cycle loss of active lithium considerably reduces the deliverable capacity.  Pre-lithiation, by which an anode is partially pre-loaded with lithium before cell assembly to counter the first cycle irreversible loss of active lithium, is an effective way of achieving significantly increased cell capacity, which will lead to a proportional gain in energy density. For example, widespread adoption of a cost effective, safe and scalable pre-lithiation approach would expectedly take energy density of current LIBs close to 300 Wh/kg.

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Yonkers, New York, January 23, 2019

It’s a new year.

I’m in my home in Connecticut. I just read a report from our lab. It’s good news; lots of good news.  I called one of our directors – someone I have known for thirty years – “Have you read the latest report?”  “No”, he replied.  “It’s Sunday”.  Then I started to tell him all the good things. He interrupted, “If you really feel this to be true, why don’t you tell it to your shareholders.” That made sense.

This is where we were:

Last year we were an exciting new company in perhaps the greatest growth field there is, energy and the development of the battery of the future. Our stock was poised for a run, our new lab was awaiting its completion and we were working with three very prestigious labs, Princeton University, Argonne National Lab, and Cornell University to further develop that technology that our patents-pending embraced. There were at least a half dozen major corporations awaiting data that would soon ensue from this group effort. Then came the typical delays.  Our lab was not ready to commence operations because of governmental delays. (Working with Lithium is not like working with oatmeal. If it were, we would never have this opportunity to change the world.)  Then eureka – our lab was approved.  We started the arduous process of staffing up, more monies had to be raised (as we have never had the joy of unlimited funds) and then we had to collate the knowledge gained from our various partners before displaying our wares to the outside world.

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Yonkers, New York, November 12, 2018 – alpha-En Corp announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has issued a Notice of Allowance for U.S. Patent Application No. 15/160,013. The patent provides intellectual property protection in the United States for alpha-En’s lithium metal having a purity of greater than 99.96 weight percent on a metals basis, free of metal impurities. The allowed patent claims cover high purity lithium having a nanorod morphology, and a wide range of associated products such as lithium batteries, battery-powered devices, sensors, electric vehicles, implantable medical devices, pharmaceutical compounds, and lithium metal compounds and alloys.

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