Founded to enable the electrification of everything - from tiny medical, consumer and commercial devices to every possible flavor and size of transportation - Group14 brings new finely-tuned performance capabilities to the era of the lithium-silicon battery. Their novel composite materials and their industrial process to make them reliably answer the cost, scale and performance barriers that have slowed the world’s transition towards the all-electric future.

In May 2022, the German carmaker Porsche led a $400 million investment in Group14 Technologies as their batteries using silicon could significantly improve the driving range and charge time of electric vehicles, two crucial metrics for their broader acceptance.

SCC55™ has five times the capacity and affords up to 50% more energy density than conventional graphite for Lithium battery anodes. Its hard carbon-based scaffolding keeps silicon in the most ideal form – amorphous, nano-sized, and carbon-encased. The result is an anode material that exhibits first cycle efficiency and long life upon Li-ion battery cycling.

Drop-in ready, SCC55™ consists of integrated intra-particle void space, with low surface area and is made with readily available, non-exotic, ultra-high purity materials.

Price per unit, subject to quantity, use case and applications.

SCC55™ – a micronized silicon-carbon powder, tunable by design and drop-in ready. SCC55™ is manufactured by a two-step process that they call Scaffold Prime™.

Scaffold Prime™ was designed as the lithium-silicon solution to replace incumbent lithium-ion technologies with a highly efficient, industrial-scale approach that yields the ideal composites for any electrification use case. Patented two-step process:

Dryrolysis: Synthesizing porous hard carbon scaffold Dryrolysis is both efficient and environmentally friendly approach to synthesizing carbon to create a carbon scaffold. Highly scalable, this novel approach removes the need for solvent by combining dry polymerization with thermal processing. This platform yields the carbon scaffold for a silicon-carbon composite – ideal for retaining amorphous, nano-sized silicon. Importantly, Dryrolysis is accomplished in a single step and in a single reactor.

Siligenesis: Creating easily tunable amorphous silicon Siligenesis is how they make the silicon anode material. Creating both silicon and tuned internal void spaces within the carbon scaffolding, this novel approach employs a non-exotic precursor that converts into silicon within the porous carbon scaffold. Siligenesis also supports silicon's expansion and contraction within remaining intraparticle void spaces of the composite, further boosting electrochemical performance.

• Electric Vehicles
• Consumer electronics
• Medical Devices
• Aerospace Industry