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Next-gen batteries
Pilotmomentum 718,880 papers a year (+64%)$5.1B raised in 12 months21 companies
New battery chemistries, like solid electrolytes, sodium or iron-air, that store more energy, cost less or last for days.
Why pilot: Stellantis began road testing a development vehicle with Factorial solid-state cells, the first such integration in North America. Jun 11, 2026
Dots under a month: dated events tracked here that month.
Events
All 19 eventsForm Energy closes $270 million credit facility
Revolving credit plus a tax credit advance facility.
formenergy.com
Mitsui Kinzoku partners with Factorial on all-solid-state cells
Joint development to scale Factorial's Solstice platform.
factorialenergy.com
Form Energy raises $750 million Series G
Led by T. Rowe Price; total equity raised passes $2 billion.
formenergy.com
Peak picks Sacramento for first US sodium-ion storage factory
Site chosen for its giga-scale sodium-ion grid storage plant.
peakenergy.com
Funding
Peak Energy
$108MSource ↗
Form Energy
$270MSource ↗
Crusoe
$3.9BSource ↗
Form Energy
Led by T. Rowe Price
$750MSource ↗
Factorial Energy
$100MSource ↗
ION Storage Systems
Led by TEDCO
$2MSource ↗
Peak Energy
Led by Xora Innovation
$55MSource ↗
Companies
All 21 companies
Amprius Technologies
Makes silicon anode batteries for drones, aviation and robotics.
amprius.com
Form Energy
Makes iron-air batteries that store power for multiple days, built in Weirton, West Virginia.
formenergy.com
Factorial Energy
Develops solid-state battery cells; listed on Nasdaq as FAC in 2026.
factorialenergy.com
Mitsui Kinzoku
Solid electrolyte maker partnering with Factorial to scale all-solid-state cells.
mitsui-kinzoku.com
Crusoe
AI infrastructure firm that agreed to buy 12 GWh of Form iron-air batteries.
crusoe.ai
Peak Energy
Makes passively cooled sodium-ion battery systems for grid storage.
peakenergy.com
Researchers and labs
All 50 researchers and labsXueliang Andy Sun
Publishes on Next-gen batteries at Western University: 81 papers in 2 years.
Yi-Xiang Wang
Publishes on Next-gen batteries at BGI Group (China): 74 papers in 2 years.
Yue Wang
Publishes on Next-gen batteries at BGI Group (China): 49 papers in 2 years.
Libao Chen
Publishes on Next-gen batteries at Central South University: 68 papers in 2 years.
CIC energiGUNE
Spanish energy storage center working on electrolytes and cell prototyping.
Helmholtz Institute Ulm
Battery research center founded in 2011 by KIT.
Most cited papers
All 47 papersCharacterizing Electrode Materials and Interfaces in Solid-State Batteries
Elif Pınar Alsaç, Douglas Lars Nelson, Sun Geun Yoon et al. · Chemical Reviews
All-solid-state Li–S batteries with fast solid–solid sulfur reaction
Huimin Song, Konrad Münch, Xu Liu et al. · Nature
Electrochemical formation of bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide-derived solid-electrolyte interphase at Li-metal potential
Weilai Yu, Kuan‐Yu Lin, David Thomas Boyle et al. · Nature Chemistry
Tailoring polymer electrolyte solvation for 600 Wh kg−1 lithium batteries
Xueyan Huang, Chen‐Zi Zhao, Wei-Jin Kong et al. · Nature
A comprehensive review of solid-state batteries
Aniruddha Joshi, Dillip Kumar Mishra, Rajendra Kumar Singh et al. · Applied Energy
Patents
High green density ceramics for battery
Quantumscape Battery Inc
Battery or electrochemical cell fixture
Solid Power Operating Inc
Cell assembly and all solid-state battery comprising the same
Factorial Inc
Hybrid electrodes with both intercalation and conversion materials
Quantumscape Battery Inc
Lithium battery cell including cathode having metal fluoride core-shell particle
Sila Nanotechnologies Inc
Battery or electrochemical cell fixture
Solid Power Operating Inc
About next-gen batteries here
- Sub-areas
- Solid-state electrolytesLithium-metal anodesSodium-ionIron-air long-duration storageSilicon anodesLithium-ceramic cells
- Stage evidence
- Pilot, Jun 11, 2026: Stellantis began road testing a development vehicle with Factorial solid-state cells, the first such integration in North America. factorialenergy.com
- Momentum
- 71 of 100: the mean of its ranks among the tracked fields for paper growth (88), funding in 12 months (81) and events in 90 days (44). Method
- Papers
- 8,880 in the 12 months ending two months ago, +64% against the 12 before (OpenAlex topics, journal and conference papers).
- Tracked here since
- Sep 25, 2026
- Weekly snapshots
- 5 weeks stored; latest Nov 2, 2026. JSON
Changes to this field
Next-gen batteries
Renamed from Solid-state and next-generation batteries.
Next-gen batteries
Tracked from here on: New battery chemistries, like solid electrolytes, sodium or iron-air, that store more energy, cost less or last for days.