The Advanced Power Sources Laboratory (APSL) provides comprehensive capabilities in power source research, engineering, characterization, evaluation, and testing. Supporting APSL is a staff of more than forty scientists, engineers, and technicians with backgrounds in chemistry, electrochemistry, metallurgy, chemical engineering, materials science, engineering, and physics.
State-of-the-art equipment and software are available to perform a wide variety of research activities for almost any primary or rechargeable technology. Facilities (over 60,000 sq. ft.) include:
- wet chemistry laboratories
- analytical and diagnostic laboratories
- extensive dry room facilities (over 3,000 sq. ft.)
- environmental battery test facility
- prototyping facilities for lithium-ion batteries, lithium metal batteries, and electrochemical capacitors
- production/prototyping facilities for thermal batteries
- Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab)
- access to comprehensive environmental testing, modeling, materials synthesis, analysis, and diagnostic equipment across the laboratory
Eight business areas provide the focal points for APSL activities:
- thermal battery development and prototyping
- production and stockpile support for power sources
- lithium ambient-temperature batteries
- electric vehicle and hybrid electric vehicle batteries
- double-layer capacitors
- grid scale energy storage solutions
- power sources testing and evaluation
- advanced power source concepts