If from lab to prototype, the runway is getting smaller. For it to benefit en-masse, you need innovation that matters, at scale. The manufacturing challenge not many talk about With that, let's discuss FULL-MAP, which stands for FULLy integrated, autonomous & chemistry agnostic Materials Acceleration Platform for sustainable batteries! Here's the uncomfortable truth about battery innovation: most brilliant discoveries die in a factory somewhere. You can create the world's most amazing battery chemistry in a lab, but if you can't manufacture it reliably at scale, it might as well not exist. This is what researchers call the ‘valley of death’ - the brutal gap between we proved it works and we can make a million of them . FULL-MAP, running alongside and beyond BIG-MAP, tackles exactly this problem. Think of it this way: BIG-MAP is discovering what batteries could be. FULL-MAP is figuring out how to actually make them. The initiative broug...
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