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Insights straight from the lab: What‘s happening behind the scenes at Qkera? What our Battery Engineer Lea Schulz and Materials Lead Patrick Ganswindt are showing here is our bilayer oxide ceramic separator. It‘s designed as a drop-in solution for next-generation battery applications. At first glance, it looks and feels like a conventional separator: thin, flexible, easy to handle. And that’s exactly the point. Instead of relying on composite materials (ceramic in polymer matrices) as in conventional approaches, we‘re building something different: continuous ceramic coatings and membranes. That way, we are accessing the full potential of these materials. In a battery, the separator is the layer that keeps anode and cathode apart while allowing ions to pass. Its properties directly impact both safety and performance. Ceramic separators hold great promise to be used in next-generation battery designs due to their conductivity and high stability towards high-capacity anode materials. The challenge: ceramics are typically brittle, difficult to process, and even harder to scale into thin, large-area membranes. What you see here is a significant step towards combining the properties of oxide ceramics with the handling and processability that is needed for industrial battery manufacturing. We’re working on making ceramic separators part of the real-world energy ecosystem. #nextgenbatteries #oxideceramics