We Scale Innovation

: 9
Research teams: 20
Projects delivered: 88

Innovation in Practice

How research teams work with JAFORD to move ideas into larger-scale trials and validation.

Using electrode-processing feedback to advance a battery material

PBT054

A team brought its anode material into cell development, addressed processing difficulties and reached its project-specific cycling requirements.

Taking a published synthesis from a small trial to a research batch

PFM044

A team reproduced a literature route, reviewed an initial sample and progressed to a larger target-molecule batch with NMR data for product assessment.

Using ampere-hour pouch cells to guide sodium-ion development

PBT042

A research team tested its sodium-ion concept in ampere-hour pouch cells and used the gap between expected and observed results to identify what needed to change.

Designing a sodium-ion pouch-cell study around rate performance

PBT040

A team’s rate-performance research objective shaped NFPP material selection, electrode processing and a custom pouch-cell development plan.

Taking a hard-carbon process beyond small laboratory trials

PBT018

A sodium-ion materials team turned a proposed resin-to-carbon route into a practical processing study, with experimental data to inform further material development.

Building a pouch-cell platform for battery and electrolyte research

PBT017

A research team gained custom dry pouch cells and supporting electrolyte, bringing related development requests into one platform for further cell and electrolyte evaluation.

Turning a PEG polymer route into characterized research samples

PFM016

A team gained custom PEG-related polymer samples, a more complete synthesis procedure and analytical data to support further material development.

Taking a proposed resin route into kilogram-scale synthesis

PFM014

A materials team moved from a theoretical synthesis route to a verified procedure and larger resin batches, gaining a basis for reproducible scale-up.

Turning sodium-ion pouch-cell results into a better validation process

PBT012

A team took its hard-carbon material into NFPP pouch cells and, through a review of cell formation, reached the experimental objective after an initially disappointing result.

Building an experimental platform for carbon activation

PBT005

A materials team gained a practical setting for repeated carbon-activation trials, turning a proposed laboratory experiment into a programme of rapid material validation.