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Proton Power Partners With Faradyne Power To Produce Graphene-Based Energy Storage Products

In June of 2023, Proton Power, Inc. (PPI) entered into partnership with a consortium of companies headed by Faradyne Power.  Faradyne Power’s mission is to leverage the unique combination of technologies brought by the consortium to provide renewable diesel, turbostratic graphene, and graphene-based energy storage and other applications in an environmentally and economically sustainable manner.  Using PPI technology, it intends to be the principal provider of turbostratic graphene on a global basis and the leader in the creation of new, greener, more efficient, graphene-based solutions for energy storage and other applications.

To accomplish this mission, Faradyne Power formed three subsidiaries: Aurora, Stratic, and Faradyne Products.  Together, these three companies are vertically integrated to take biomass from feedstock to final product.

Aurora is Faradyne’s proprietary biomass processing plant business charged with utilizing PPI’s CHyP® technology to produce renewable diesel fuel and Pro-C® biochar.

Using the Pro-C® biochar produced by Aurora, Stratic converts it into turbostratic graphene products by utilizing additional proprietary PPI technology.

Faradyne Products, in the final step of the process, uses Stratic’s turbostratic graphene products to produce end-use energy storage and other products.

One of the most exciting products currently under development is an energy storage system that contains no lithium or rare earth materials.  The absence of lithium coupled with the high thermal conductivity of turbostratic graphene makes these electricity storage units significantly safer while also doubling the storage capacity and providing 30x faster charging times compared to traditional Li-ion batteries.

For more information on Faradyne Power, visit the website at https://www.faradynepower.com/.

Release date: June, 2023

Graphene Update: PPI Batteries Delivering Significant Performance Improvements

The work at Proton Power, Inc. (PPI) to develop batteries made with PPI turbostratic graphenes continues to deliver excellent results. 

Since 2020, PPI has been building and testing coin cell batteries where the graphite normally used in Li-ion batteries is replaced with PPI’s proprietary blend of its turbostratic graphenes.

Below is a summary of the achievements to date of PPI batteries compared to their lithium-ion (Li-ion) counterparts:

  • PPI batteries can hold 2x the storage capacity compared to Li-ion batteries.
  • PPI batteries re-charge 30x faster than Li-ion batteries.
  • PPI has built over 3000 coin cell batteries for testing.  Of those, approximately 500 have been tested or are in testing currently, and the “oldest” of those have lasted for more than 2900 charge cycles – compared to 1000 charge cycles that can be delivered over the lifetime of a typical Li-ion battery.
  • Unlike Li-ion batteries that degrade in capacity over time, the capacity of PPI batteries actually increase over time.

In addition, PPI turbostratic graphene batteries are safer than Li-ion batteries.  The fire dangers of Li-ion batteries are well known and have resulted in significant property damage, injuries, and even deaths.  The risk of fires is significantly reduced with PPI batteries, because the PPI turbostratic graphene blend that is used instead of graphite conducts heat 11x faster than the graphite used in Li-ion batteries – which means that heat is dissipated instead of building up inside the battery.

PPI turbostratic graphenes are derived from renewable, sustainable Pro-C® biochar via a proprietary PPI process.  The Pro-C® biochar, in turn, is produced from clean, renewable biomass using PPI pyrolysis units, so the entire process has a very small carbon footprint – approximately 90% less than the environmentally dirty processes used to produce graphite.

The key to all of this is the turbostratic nature of PPI graphenes – which is different from conventional graphenes.  In “normal” graphenes, layers of carbon atoms are stacked vertically in direct alignment, one on top of the other, but in PPI’s turbostratic graphenes, the carbon layers are “twisted” relative to each other.  That small difference in structure makes huge differences in the ability of the turbostratic graphene to conduct and store electricity and in its ability to transfer heat.  That leads to better performance in PPI batteries.