Thank you for having me here.
The way it works is we use wood pulp and forest residue. We have two different processes. One is a chemical pre-treatment and a laminate pre-treatment, depending on the application, which allows us to reduce the amount of energy we need in order for us to produce nanofibres from wood pulp. Normally this is an energy-intensive process because of the pre-treatment it uses.
The second thing is, once you have these, the most challenging area of the technology that we have developed is how to disperse these very small nano-scale fibres, such as recycled polyamides, into recycled plastics material that is coming from some of the disposal sources. Polyamides are a high-temperature polymer for the automotive industry; normally, what will happen is that this kind of material, like biofibre, usually tends to burn. However, because of our pre-treatment process, we found an extraordinary improvement in the heat-resistant property of these nanofibres. Also, our institute's defibration process is a very surplus-energy-based process, which allows it to be dispersed very uniformly in one single state and makes the product a high-performance one, comparable to glass fibres.
That's how this material is being made, and these compounds are now valid to use for applications like EV batteries, battery casings and battery packs.