SBIR/STTR Research Award
Aircraft Structural Battery Enclosure Design and Development by 3D Printed Continuous Carbon Fibers/Thermoset Composites
Award amount
$150,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2021Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Talos Tech LLC
- Proposal award date
- 2020-12-09
- Contract end date
- 2021-06-09
- UEI
- E9Q6R6X5M8X8
- Solicitation number
- X20.D
- Topic code
- AFX20D-TCSO1
Research abstract
Conventional battery enclosures made up of metals or plastics and securing battery durability and safety, are not ideal for electric aircrafts due to the weight and durability concerns. TalosTech and University of Delaware (UD) propose to design and develop a novel aircraft structural battery enclosure by 3D printed continuous fiber-reinforced/thermoset composites (lightweight and high strength) which can integrate batteries within aircraft parts (e.g. fuselages and wings). This will effectively reduce the dead weight/space, increase energy density and durability of the aircraft battery systems. In Phase I, we will combine TalosTech’s battery development capability and UD’s composite additive manufacturing technology to demonstrate the feasibility of this creative concept for Orb/eVTOL/UAM applications.
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.
- Wild-Temperature Lithium Ion Batteries for Extreme Conditions
- High Temperature All Solid-State LiAl-CO2 Batteries for Venus Missions
- High Temperature All Solid-State LiAl-CO2 Batteries for Venus Missions
- Advanced Multifunctional Battery Separators for Novel Liquid Electrolytes
- High-energy Lithium Metal Secondary Batteries for Electric Vehicles
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Extremely Lightweight and Ultra-Low Noise Isolated DC-DC Converters
- Continuous Fiber Additive Manufacturing for Rapid Prototyping and Demonstration of Small UAS Designs
- Deployable Containerized LH2 Refueling System
- Extremely Lightweight and Ultra-Low Noise Isolated DC-DC Converters
- Advanced Li-Metal, High-Power Battery
Research funding history
9 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2017–2025). Reported award amounts total $2,974,447. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy