News

2012 03
Feb

Recognition for contribution to clean energy Nexeon has been given two major accolades at this year’s Rushlight Awards, including the overall Clean Energy Award. This award recognises the progress made by Nexeon in developing silicon-based anodes for next generation lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries. Nexeon also won the Powered Transport Award – given for the most [...]

2012 20
Jan

Nexeon has been chosen as one of the UK companies to join a high profile trade mission to Japan at the end of January. The mission, organised by UK Trade & Investment and the British Embassy, Tokyo, focuses on the important ICT market that has annual sales of over £630 billion, and which is now [...]

2011 13
Dec

Nexeon has begun a collaboration with a global tier one automotive OEM with a view to optimising the company’s technology for electric vehicle applications. The joint development agreement, which is worth ‘several million pounds’, will see the two companies co-operate in the development and evaluation of Nexeon’s silicon materials. These are designed to replace carbon [...]

2011 11
Nov

Nexeon was named as the top cleantech company to watch last night in the Cleantech Connect awards. These feature the hottest and fastest growing Cleantech companies in Europe. This year, companies featured in Cleantech Connect came from a wide variety of sectors including energy efficiency, solar, smart grid, water and transportation. Nexeon was recognised for [...]

2011 14
Oct

Nexeon was recognised in the BEEA awards yesterday and was a finalist in the “Best Design Team” award for its work in using silicon in place of carbon as the anode material in Li-ion batteries. Progress has been rapid over the last few years with capacities of “18650” cells having been increased to more than [...]