“We simply want to be better than the existing battery technologies.” That’s the goal of Ilika and its research into the commercialization of solid state batteries. In this interview, John Tinson, Vice President of Sales at Ilika gives an insight into the current state of development and the challenges involved in developing their Goliath cells.
From Medical Applications to Electric Car Batteries: Company Profile Ilika
Ilika was founded in 2004 as a spin-out from the University of Southampton based around combinatorial materials development. Following a pivot in 2018 Ilika focused on the development of solid state battery technology, both at mm-scale (Stereax) and large scale printed cells (Goliath). Stereax , mm-scale, solid state cells are designed to power active implantable medical devices (AIMDs) and customers have been sampling first generation batteries. Since the 2018 pivot, Ilika has also been working on an all solid state battery for the automotive market. Unlike many competitors, the plan is to use silicon as the anode material.
Ilika plc (LON:IKA) is a pioneer in solid state battery technology enabling solutions for applications in Industrial IoT, MedTech, Electric Vehicles and Consumer Electronics.
