EMERGING APPLICATIONS

Future products

Apheros metal foams' unique properties enable innovations beyond cold plates and electrodes.

emerging applications

Potential applications are...

  • Battery materials (i.e. electrodes and current collectors)
    • Apheros metal foams have high potential as performance-enhancing battery components. Their unique microstructure can offer improved energy density, power output, and cycle life by facilitating efficient ion transport, improving heat dissipation, and delivering structural support.
  • Carbon capture and utilization (CCU)
    • Turning CO2 into ethylene or ethanol requires a highly selective and efficient catalyst to perform the crucial carbon-carbon coupling. Copper is the premier catalyst for this transformation. Our ultra-porous copper foam structure is uniquely suited for this reaction and is being tested with R&D partners.
  • Further cooling solutions
    • Apheros materials are ideal as wicks for heat pipes and vapor chambers
      • thin profile
      • increased wicking speed
      • a higher number of nucleation sites