BAT 15-min Battery Material Decarbonization Challenge
英美烟草：15分钟新生碳企业挑战赛——电池材料减碳方案挑战
Sponsored by BAT. Shark-tank style challenge for 8 battery material companies pitching for grand prize. Each startup has only 15 mins to pitch. The challenge: how can battery-tech companies make electronic devices with built-in batteries more earth-friendly?

Judging panel: BAT, Heraeus, LG Energy, Apex & CM Venture

Contestants:

Like Material（利科新材料）
Like Material specializes in the R&D of molecular structures of functional bio-based materials. They have developed a furanocyclic bio-based aramid fiber for battery separator coating, as a low-carbon solution, while enhancing lithium battery safety.

Botree（博萃循环）
Botree is dedicated to delivering total solutions for recycling critical battery materials. With advanced separation systems and smart equipment, Botree enables worldwide battery manufacturers, battery operators, automotive manufacturers, energy storage enterprises, and recyclers achieve short-loops in the use of battery materials. Applications include recycling of lithium batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, solid state batteries, and more. 

Green Li-ion (online)
Green Li-ion is a lithium-ion battery recycling technology company producing modular hardware solutions that convert spent batteries into cathode and anode material that’s ready to drop into manufacturing processes for batteries of all types. They are revolutionizing the energy storage industry with the first commercial scale modular plant solutions to fully refine and rejuvenate all forms of performance Li-ion and precious metal batteries (incl NiMh) in one step with up to 90% less carbon footprint.

Shanghai Electric（上海电气） 
Shanghai Electric is a provider of green smart industrial solutions, including smart energy, intelligent manufacturing and integration of digital intelligence. Participating is the Shanghai Electric research institute team, which is focused on battery material recycling.

ToDawn Technology（都桐科技）
A startup a result of a spinout from MIT Labs: they rely on unique mechanical/physical methods to regenerate LFP material from waste batteries.

GSR Energy
Developers of lithium nickel-manganate cathode materials, which is able to support >10C fast-charging capability, while offering a 10% carbon footprint reduction, when compared with the current generation of cathode materials. 

Vernon & AEM（威尔能）
Experts in the physical regeneration of LFP cathodes.

Silicon Plus （珈能硅基)
A battery recycling company with experience in recycling graphite materials from anode sheets, to regenerate graphite, or produce silicon-carbon anodes