MECo is a startup in Columbus, IN.
By working with us, you’re supporting the genuine onshoring of battery and magnet production.
We manufacture the best and most critically needed technologies for the security and prosperity of the United States, start to finish.
Our aim is to do the hard work of automating the manufacturing for this century’s most advanced materials science, providing the bedrock technologies bringing the diverse visions of tomorrow, to today.
CATHODES, NANOCERAMICS, PERMANENT MAGNETS
Without these technologies, U.S. dominance in industry, on the battlefield, and throughout the galaxy is threatened. Our platform makes diverse nanomaterial production automatable and scalable, from raw materials to finished product.
LIQUID BATTERIES
Liquid batteries can be based on one of several chemistries with longer lives, greater cycle lives, and cheaper, more abundant materials. To keep the materials in liquid state, these batteries operate at high temperatures.
Despite deployment of several hundred megawatt hours annually, liquid batteries are unknown to the average consumer/operator as their high operating temperatures have relegated them to exclusively grid-scale infrastructure. We seek to change that.
MECo fields innovations to the containment and manufacture of these chemistries, enabling their use in applications 1/100th of the sizes currently available today. This enables liquid batteries for use in energy storage in form factors as small as an A/C condenser for use in a typical commercial setting.
GLOBAL IMPACT
Global trade and power dynamics are dictated more and more by the sourcing, production and supply of nanostructured, electrification-enabling technologies. The national consequence of dependence on foreign products in these technologies, from ceramic orbital-reentry tiles to permanent magnets, are unprecedented. Each input has global origins and the output products often literally encircle the earth throughout their use.
FIRST PRINCIPLES
How many times in the last few years have you thought about battery recycling? You’ve probably even heard “black mass” through media discussing the opportunities of these waste streams. Our first principles take is that if you’re seeing a buzzword on the mainstream news, it’s already too crowded and too late. Aside from the underappreciated technical challenges of debinding and recovering entropically destroyed cathode materials, there are too many eyes for high leverage, low inertia teams to make a big impact.
Consider also how in nearly every application you find a battery, you will also find an electric motor. The most critical elements, and the most expensive materials in the entire system are in that motor: permanent magnets. The difference is visibility, and timing. How many times in the last few years have you heard someone mention the opportunity of magnet waste streams?
