SBIR/STTR Research Award
Metal Hydride Energy Sources for Very High Altitude Aircraft Propulsion
Award amount
$89,996Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Recipient company
- JOHNSON RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO INC
- Proposal award date
- 2009-02-17
- Contract end date
- 2009-10-20
- UEI
- E7C5ELQ5HD45
- Solicitation number
- 2008.2
- Topic code
- SB082-064
Research abstract
Lithium metal possess a high specific capacity of 3860 Ah/kg, and can provide high voltages in electrochemical cells, thus creating the basis for high specific energy batteries. However, batteries based on lithium metal suffer several drawbacks, due to the poor morphology of redeposited lithium and possibility of dendrite growth, which can short circuit the battery and pose safety hazards. We propose to employ a lithium battery technique that captures significantly greater energy than currently accessed via conventional battery technologies.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Lithium-Air Batteries for Urban Air Mobility
- Lithium-Air Batteries for Urban Air Mobility (UAM)
- Metal Hydride Energy Sources for Very High Altitude Aircraft Propulsion
- Electrical power generation for sustained high speed flight
- 20 year backup battery
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Metal Hydride Energy Source for HALE Aircraft Propulsion
- A Metal Hydride Power Source for HALE Aircraft Propulsion
- Metal Hydride Energy Source for HALE Aircraft Propulsion
Research funding history
21 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1994–2021). Reported award amounts total $6,626,938. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy