Glimpse

📦 🔋 Looking for guidance on how to safely prepare, package, ship, receive, and dispose of battery cells in the US? 🪫 📦 🤓 Our team has concocted a list of resources that we've found the most useful as we were learning the ins and outs of shipping battery cells. 📖 👐 Today, we're making this list available to everyone! Not because cell shipping is a thrilling topic (it really isn't 😁), but because it's an essential part of developing a thriving battery cell ecosystem. 🔋 🌱 Just like with our our Scan On Demand service, through which we provide high-resolution scans of your cells for as low as $50/scan, we want to do our part in helping battery startups collaborate and flourish. https://lnkd.in/dhGfxiUV

🩻 It's well known that X-rays can cause damage in humans. But do X-rays damage batteries? 🔋🤕 ⁉️ X-ray beams can damage materials under certain conditions. But we hadn't seen any studies of beam damage in X-ray CT scanning of batteries. So, we decided to look into this ourselves. 📜 In Glimpse's latest study, led by our summer intern Jinhong Min, we show that typical X-ray doses used in CT scanning have no effect on battery performance and lifetime. We cycled cells with 2 minutes of X-ray exposure, 1 hour of X-ray exposure, and a control group and looked as hard as we could for differences. Good news – we couldn't find any! 😮💨 The link to the preprint is in the comments. 🔮 Glimpse enables high-throughput CT scanning for battery quality control. To learn more, visit https://glimp.se or check out our 1000-cell demo at https://app.glimp.se. 🤩🙏 Special thanks to Reece Daniel from Daniel Consulting Group for running the cycling tests as well as Andrew Ramsey (Nikon Metrology) and Till Dreier (Excillum) for their invaluable insights.

If you're in the Boston area on 11/14, join us for a battery 🔋 happy hour 🍻 🥂 co-hosted by the incredible Volta Foundation and the Glimpse team. We have some delicious food 🍤 🌮 and exciting tech talks 🤓 planned for the evening!

🚨 🚨 Big news! Glimpse has partnered with VCbattery and Excillum to bring high-res, seconds-long, full-cell CT scanning to the cylindrical cell industry 🔋 🔋 🤯 Yes, you read that right. 20um scans. Full cylindrical cells. Every 10 seconds. 🤝 By integrating Excillum's breakthrough liquid metal X-ray source into VCbattery's VCB2, a first-of-its-kind CT scanner specifically designed for cylindrical cells, and combining it with the Glimpse Portal, this "superscanner" will revolutionize battery cell inspection. 👀 Glimpse will install the world's first superscanner at its Boston, MA headquarters in Q2 2025. For more details about this announcement, read our press release below or come by our booth (#5711) at The Battery Show. https://lnkd.in/dDVhTXM8

🔥🔋📱🚲🚗🔋🔥 Will battery quality issues ever go away? 📃 Read our latest blog post to learn why we think battery quality will get worse before it gets better: https://lnkd.in/eBK5ij3h

🤔 What kinds of battery chemistries are compatible with CT scanning? 🤩 All sorts! Check out these 🧂 sodium-ion 🧂 18650 cells that we scanned in 2 minutes. These cells look similar to conventional lithium-ion cylindrical cells. However, unlike lithium-ion cells, sodium-ion cells use aluminum as the current collector for both electrodes. 🧪 As long as the anode and cathode have different elemental compositions 🔥💧🌬️ — which is essentially true by definition in a battery — CT scanning can be used to evaluate battery quality and performance. We've scanned cells using NMC, LFP, lithium metal, sodium ion, and the list 📋 goes on... 🔮 The Glimpse Portal allows battery engineers to quickly understand the quality of their batteries 🪫🔋. See these scans and over 1,000 more on our demo at https://app.glimp.se!

We’re excited to be attending The Battery Show in Detroit this October! Visit us at Booth 5711 to learn how we’re helping battery producers and buyers enable battery quality at scale. 🔋⚡️

Join us next Wednesday to learn more about the challenges of battery quality at scale and how high-throughput CT can help!

We are delighted to share that Lucid Motors is utilizing Glimpse's high throughput solution to help ensure the quality and performance of their battery cells at scale. Our CEO, Eric Moch, said "Lucid is without a doubt one of the technological leaders in the EV industry so we're very proud to support their sophisticated cell engineering team with our Quality Management Solution. It's been a really productive relationship so far and our teams are actively exploring projects to demonstrate first-of-its-kind analysis to the industry." Visit our website to learn more about our On-Premise Scanning solution: https://lnkd.in/dwUER_kd

👀 Can CT scanning reveal electrolyte? 🧪 Sometimes! Check out these fresh BYD 4680 cells that we scanned in 2 minutes. We can clearly see the electrolyte meniscus in the core. The amount of excess electrolyte in these cells is wildly different. Don't expect these cells to have the same cycle life 🔄❗️ 🔮 The Glimpse Portal allows battery engineers to quickly understand the quality of their batteries 🪫🔋. See these scans and over 1,000 more on our demo at https://app.glimp.se!