UCSB to join major collaboration supporting battery innovation and commercialization

UC Santa Barbara is joining a powerful new collaboration aimed at revolutionizing the battery industry through the Electrochemistry Foundry (ECF). This nonprofit initiative, supported by a $28 million award from the California Energy Commission, seeks to bridge the gap between laboratory research and industrial-scale production. By providing a 20,000-square-foot shared-use pilot manufacturing line in Hayward, CA, the ECF allows startups and researchers to prototype advanced technologies, such as solid-state batteries.

“The support from the California Energy Commission will help to establish a state-of-the-art battery-component manufacturing pilot line at UCSB’s recently established OASIS research facility, thus bolstering efforts to develop and scale-up of novel manufacturing processes while training the next-generation of battery engineers,” said Professor Jeff Sakamoto, a battery expert in the Materials and Mechanical Engineering Departments at UCSB’s Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering. 

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