Zhuanghan Li’s work on battery technology while a Research Fellow at King’s led to starting up Molyon with King’s Entrepreneurship Lab Research Associate Ismail Sami.
As the world leans into electrification, battery technology is vital. While current generation lithium-ion batteries are showing their limits, next-generation lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries promise better performance at a lower cost, and better supply chain resilience since sulfur is abundant.
“Current batteries, like the ones in our phones, our laptops, our electric vehicles, they’re just not good enough: they’re expensive, they contain critical rare materials like cobalt, and they’re also just not good enough in terms of performance.” argues Molyon CEO and co-founder Ismail Sami.
Molyon has recently secured $4.6 million in funding from early-stage investors IQ Capital and Plural to start building a pilot production facility in Cambridge where prototype Li-S batteries can be produced.
Read more about this successful collaboration here.
