Solvent-free, PFAS-free LCO, LFP, NMC electrodes that boost performance and accelerate cleaner, drop-in production.
Ateios Systems is re-engineering how lithium-ion batteries are made, focusing on cleaner production, higher performance, and rapid scale-up. Our core platform, RaiCure™, replaces solvent-intensive, forever chemical (PFAS)-dependent processing with an energy-curable approach that enhances energy density, reduces costs, and lowers emissions, while preserving compatibility with existing roll-to-roll equipment, allowing customers to adopt it at their own pace. Our process is the world’s only third-party certified PFAS-free by Intertek, providing independent assurance that we eliminate fluorinated binders from the electrode manufacturing step. According to a study by NYU, it was found that while PFAS sells for ~$20/kg, its actual societal cost exceeds $20,000/kg. Regardless of how regulations evolve, PFAS-based supply chains continue to face significant risks and rising costs, as it will become increasingly challenging to produce in compliance with growing regulations and potential litigations.
The RaiCore solution
Building on this platform, our RaiCore™ product line supplies ready-to-integrate electrodes in the chemistries device makers and battery OEMs rely on most, namely high-voltage lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) today, and lithium iron phosphate (LFP) and lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxides (NMC) as we expand. Public results show RaiCore HV LCO prototypes delivering 15-20% higher energy density versus standard LCO, with more than 80% capacity retention after 1,000 cycles at 1C and full depth of discharge, while remaining PFA-free. These gains support slimmer products, longer runtimes, and faster routes to qualification.
Benefits of our approach
Our manufacturing approach is intentionally fabless. Rather than building greenfield factories, we leverage established toll-manufacturing and assembly partners to scale output quickly and responsibly. This model gives customers immediate access to pilot and production capacity, compressing timelines from samples to commercial orders. At our toll partner’s facility, we have completed electrode runs and assembled them into production-grade cells for customer qualification at GWh-production speeds.
Speed and cost advantages are built into RaiCure. By curing with energy rather than long thermal ovens and solvent-recovery trains, our process architecture reduces energy use and operating footprint by nearly 90%, and it enables high-throughput coating by almost ten times. The process has been validated at coating speeds of up to 50m per minute and has already been integrated into production lines across the globe. These improvements flow directly into better line economics and higher capacity per installed coater. The benefits arrive without imposing wholesale factory changes, since RaiCure is designed to interface with standard roll-to-roll equipment.
Driving customer success
Commercially, we focus on measurable customer outcomes. Since launching RaiCore HV LCO, we have shipped sample packs to accelerate A/B testing, supported paid pilots with multiple battery assemblers to integrate RaiCore into existing cell formats, and secured partner capacity measured in the hundreds of megawatt-hours per year to support near-term demand. For teams that prefer a turnkey outcome, our partner network can also deliver complete cells built with RaiCore electrodes, providing a clean and practical pathway to market.
Leveraging public funding
Public funding and third-party validation underpin our scale-up. Ateios secured $350,000 in U.S. National Science Foundation ‘Engines’ support through Binghamton University’s Upstate New York Energy Storage Engine, including a $150,000 R&D award and a $200,000 SuperBoost award that funds kilometre-scale campaigns and customer qualification. The NSF programme, led by Binghamton, focuses on building a domestic battery hub that encompasses component manufacture, sustainable cell production, materials recovery, pilot manufacturing, safety testing, integration, and workforce development. This aligns directly with our customers’ priorities around performance, compliance, and resilient supply.
Streamlined integration and enhanced efficiency
For engineering teams, adoption is straightforward. Start with off-the-shelf RaiCore electrodes to benchmark performance, advance to pilots on existing lines, and scale through our toll-manufacturing partners or through your qualified suppliers. Because RaiCore is a drop-in solution, procurement can dual-source during transition, quality can track standard metrics, and operations can unlock higher yields and fewer bottlenecks as the solvent and PFA steps are removed. Our platform page outlines available chemistries and sampling options, making it easy to align with your bill of materials and validation plans.
Enhanced sustainability and safety in electrode production
The environmental rationale is equally strong. Traditional PVDF and NMP-based routes require long drying ovens, VOC abatement, and extensive dry-room infrastructure. By removing solvents and PFA from the electrode process, RaiCure reduces energy consumption and operating complexity, while also improving safety. This architecture also supports regulatory and brand goals by eliminating ‘forever chemicals’ from the process, and it lowers the factory’s energy use and overall environmental impact. Intertek certification provides added assurance for compliance teams and brand stewards seeking verified fluorine-free manufacturing.
An innovative and practical option
Ateios serves the markets where performance, safety, and supply assurance intersect, including consumer and medical wearables, IoT devices, tools, drones, and AR or VR. In these categories, energy density and cycle life are critical, which is why high-voltage LCO remains prevalent, and why a certified PFA-free option is valuable. With RaiCore, customers can choose the optimal chemistry for their product roadmap, including HV LCO for maximum runtime, LFP for cost and safety, or NMC for a balance of energy and power, while maintaining a consistent and cleaner manufacturing foundation.
Our mission is to help the industry build more batteries for less, while doing so responsibly. By uniting higher performance, solvent-free and certified PFA-free manufacturing, high-throughput scalability, and a fabless model that taps world-class toll-manufacturing and assembly partners, Ateios provides a practical route to cleaner energy storage at scale. If your team is ready to evaluate, we will ship samples, share data, and set up a pilot with your line or with a qualified partner, so you can validate quickly and move to production with confidence.
Please note, this article will also appear in the 23rd edition of our quarterly publication.
