Advanced Power Sources Laboratory

The Advanced Power Sources Laboratory provides comprehensive capabilities in power source research, design, engineering, characterization, evaluation, and testing. Supporting PSTG is a staff of more than 80 scientists, engineers, and technicians with backgrounds in chemistry, electrochemistry, metallurgy, chemical engineering, materials science, engineering, and physics.

State-of-the-art capabilities are available to perform research, design, development, and production for a variety of primary, reserve or rechargeable technologies. Facilities (over 60,000 sq. ft.) include:

• Wet chemistry laboratories
• Analytical and diagnostic laboratories
• Extensive dry room capabilities: >10,000 sq. ft. that is agile/reconfigurable to meet dynamic customer needs
• Environmental battery test facility
• Production/prototyping facilities for lithium-ion, lithium primary, and thermal batteries
• Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab)
• Energy Storage Analysis Laboratory (ESAL)
• World-class non-destructive analysis tools
• Additive manufacturing and 3D printing battery hardware
• Access to comprehensive environmental testing, modeling & simulation, materials synthesis, analysis, and diagnostic equipment across the laboratory