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📜🎉🗞️ Glimpse’s first published paper is online! 📜🎉🗞️ This short paper discusses our open dataset 💾 containing CT scans of over 1000 batteries 🤯. We believe this dataset is both the largest publicly-available dataset of battery test data 🔋and the largest publicly-available dataset of industrial CT scans 💡. Read more on Glimpse’s blog. Links to the paper and the dataset are in the comments. https://lnkd.in/eF2prpsu

Great to see our ultrabright friends at Excillum getting traction from battery customers for their ultrabright X-ray source! 🔆🩻 🔋

🚨 Top 10 Major Battery Recalls 🚨 The battery industry has seen its fair share of recalls due to safety and performance issues. Here are the top 10 major battery recalls in recent history: 🤳 Samsung Galaxy Note 7: Exploding batteries led to a global recall, costing Samsung billions. ✈ Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Lithium-ion battery fires grounded the entire fleet for months. 🚘 GM Chevrolet Bolt EV: Fire risks prompted a recall of over 140,000 vehicles. 💻 Sony Laptop Batteries: Overheating issues led to a recall of millions of batteries. 💻 HP Laptop Batteries: Over 50,000 batteries recalled due to fire and burn hazards. 🚗 Nissan Leaf: Battery capacity loss issues led to a recall of early models. 🏎 Tesla Model S: Battery-related fire risk prompted a recall of select models. 🛸 Hoverboards: Multiple brands recalled due to fire hazards. 🚗 Toyota Prius: Battery issues led to a recall of over 1 million vehicles. 💻 Dell Laptop Batteries: Overheating and fire risks resulted in a massive recall. 🔍 How CT Technology Can Help To prevent such costly and dangerous recalls, implementing advanced CT (Computed Tomography) technology in your quality control process is crucial. CT scans provide unparalleled insight into the internal structure of batteries, enabling manufacturers to: Improve Quality Control: Detect and address defects before they become widespread issues. Enhance Traceability: Track the entire lifecycle of each battery, ensuring accountability and compliance. Boost Production Efficiency: Identify and eliminate bottlenecks and inefficiencies. Investing in CT technology is a proactive step towards ensuring the safety, reliability, and longevity of your battery products. #BatterySafety #QualityControl #CTTechnology #ManufacturingExcellence #BatteryRecalls #Innovation #Sustainability

This Monday, BatteryMBA welcomed Peter Attia, Co-founder and CTO of Glimpse for a lecture on: “Enabling battery quality at scale with computed tomography scanning”. This lecture featured enhancing battery quality at scale using high-throughput CT scanning. Dr. Peter Attia emphasized the need for non-electrochemical techniques, like CT scanning, to detect latent defects that don't initially show signals but can cause major problems later. Glimpse aims to eliminate battery failures through advanced CT scanning technology, providing insights into battery defects and quality. Our warm thanks to Peter Attia for this great lecture! BatteryMBA’s next cohort starts on September 9th, 2024. Apply here: https://battery.mba/enroll #batteries #energystorage #personaldevelopment

✨ Electron beams ✨, 😵💫 rotating anodes 😵💫, and 💧🛩️ liquid-metal jets 💧🛩️? Read our latest blog post to learn more about the fascinating science behind advanced 💡 X-ray sources 💡, featuring advanced source designs from our friends at NIKON METROLOGY and Excillum. https://lnkd.in/d6GmYVnR

Last week, our CTO Peter Attia was invited at the 2024 Cell Symposia hosted at the University of Michigan to discuss the challenges of enabling battery quality at scale. https://lnkd.in/eWDAq8qe

Thanks for hosting our article, Battery Bits (Volta Foundation)! Read more to learn about the power of CT for battery quality control

🔋 Battery lifetime testing is slow 🐌, painful 😫 , and expensive 💸. So why would you use those precious cycling channels without first checking that 1. your cells are free of defects and 2. you adequately captured their build variability? Read our first blog post 📜 to learn how pre-test CT scanning can both reduce the time and cost of battery testing and unlock new insights into your cell behavior. This post is especially important for folks using machine learning and AI 🤖 for data-driven battery lifetime prediction. https://lnkd.in/dmcFydzx

🚭 Smoking kills! But not for the reason you might think… 🔋 Ever heard of "Vapcells"? We hadn't. But when we saw that these 2170 cells used in vape pens were packing a whooping 5.6Ah 😮, we got curious. So we bought a couple dozen and CT scanned them. 😱 Check out what we saw on the Glimpse Portal (link below). Most of them showed buckled jellyrolls! Just like electrode overhang violations - see our previous post -, jellyroll buckling can lead to lithium plating, which in turn can lead to the creation of an internal short in the cell ⚡❗. Trying to cram too much energy in battery cells can lead to internal mechanical failures. Jellyroll buckling is one example of such failures, in which energy-dense electrodes swell over life and build up so much pressure that the jellyroll ends up folding in on itself. ⚖ Great example of the constant tension between cell performance - here, energy density - and cell quality - here, mechanical failure. https://lnkd.in/d7VkWgcv

Ever used computed tomography (CT) scanning for battery cells 🔋 ? You probably found it incredibly slow 🐢 , painfully expensive 💸 , and not very user friendly 🙅♀️ ... We're changing that with our high-resolution #ScanOnDemand service for cylindrical, pouch, and prismatic cells. Here's how it works: 🚚 Ship your cells to us. Our facility receives cells from all around North America. If you have any questions, our team is here to help. 🔦 We scan your cells. We charge 20-30x less than everyone else, and we can scan your cells within a couple days. 👩💻 Review your scans. Results are available for review on your secure Glimpse Portal™ account immediately after scanning. 👐 Get your cells back. We're fully trained to ship batteries and meet all transportation regulations. Interested? Email info@glimp.se Check out our free, public 1000-cell demo on the Glimpse Portal™ at https://app.glimp.se/ to view scans with resolution ranging from 10 to 35 microns.