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Location:Home > > Market Intelligence > Carbon Nanotube | Const Current Plans to Construct a Pilot Production Line for Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube

Carbon Nanotube | Const Current Plans to Construct a Pilot Production Line for Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube

Date:2024-08-26
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Jiangsu Const Current Technology Co., Ltd. (Const Current) recently announced the completion of a Pre-A round financing of tens of millions of yuan, which was jointly invested by SIDVC, Dunxing Capital, and Nanhui Venture Capital. This round of financing will mainly help Const Current Technology to construct a pilot production line for the mass production of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs).

Founded in December 2022, Const Current Technology is an international innovative enterprise integrating R&D, production, sales, and services. Its core product is the conductive agent of SWCNTs. The company has mastered key core technologies such as the preparation technology of core catalysts for SWCNTs, and the highly uniform dispersion technology of single-walled carbon nanotubes. It also has the capacity to develop, produce, and sell high-end conductive agents such as superconductive carbon black and graphene. The company is headquartered in the Suzhou High-Tech Zone, with a core team that has backgrounds from China, Japan, Europe, and the United States, and has established a deep industry-academia-research cooperation with the University of Tokyo.



Silicon-based materials are considered ideal candidates for the next generation of lithium-ion battery anodes due to their high theoretical capacity. However, their poor electrical conductivity and large volume expansion coefficient inevitably lead to poor cycle stability. SWCNTs, with their excellent conductivity, high aspect ratio, great flexibility, and the ability to form a three-dimensional conductive network within silicon-based anodes even at very low additions, can establish highly conductive and durable contact after being introduced into silicon-based anodes. The addition of SWCNT conductive agents in silicon-based anode batteries can significantly improve the battery cycle life. Therefore, SWCNTs are an effective solution to the expansion problem of silicon-based anodes.


The SWCNT and other high-end conductive agents from Const Current can not only be widely used in the silicon-based anodes of lithium-ion batteries but also applied to the cathodes of lithium-ion batteries, significantly improving the adhesion of the electrode sheets, the discharge power, energy density, and safety of lithium-ion batteries. At the same time, they are also suitable for the next generation of new energy batteries, whether solid-state batteries, sodium-ion batteries, or hydrogen fuel cells. With various excellent properties, the product can also be widely applied to conductive plastics, transparent conductive films, supercapacitors, conductive inks, high-strength "super fibers" and other products or materials, covering a wide range of fields such as electric vehicles, 3C digital, semiconductors, photovoltaic power generation, aerospace, and more.

Statistics show that the global market for SWCNTs is monopolized by the European company OCSiAL. Domestic companies have a higher market share in the multi-walled carbon nanotube market. However, for SWCNTs with higher technical and performance requirements, China technical reserves are insufficient, and there are no enterprises with large-scale industrialization.

Relying on more than 20 years of research and industrial exploration in the field of SWCNTs by the University of Tokyo, as a pioneer and forerunner in the domestication of high-end conductive agents, Const Current Technology will expand the R&D teams in China and Japan through this round of financing, build a pilot test line, and accelerate the industrialization process of SWCNTs.

In addition, it is reported that the company has also developed a superconductive carbon black product, MEC380, with performance similar to Ketjenblack, and has submitted an international invention patent application. Test data show that it forms a multi-branch structure, with particle size and conductivity similar to Ketjenblack, suitable for low-temperature environments of -30°C to -20°C, with a capacity retention rate of over 90% at minus 40 degrees; at minus 50 degrees, the capacity retention rate is over 80%.