German companies Lanxess and Hella have developed a highly flame retardant, shrink and warp-resistant compound for use in vehicle battery systems and photovoltaic plugs and sockets called Pocan AF4130. The novel compound functions as housing material for two-cell monitoring units (CMU) and a battery management unit (BMU), and combines polybutylene terephthalate and acrylic ester-styrene-acrylonitrile, is 30% glass fibres by weight, plus it has a halogen-based flame retardance package. In the new study, published today in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Lab and the U.S. Department of Energy’s
German companies Lanxess and Hella have developed a highly flame retardant, shrink and warp-resistant compound for use in vehicle battery systems and photovoltaic plugs and sockets called Pocan AF4130. The novel compound functions as housing material for two-cell monitoring units (CMU) and a battery management unit (BMU), and combines polybutylene terephthalate and acrylic ester-styrene-acrylonitrile, is 30% glass fibres by weight, plus it has a halogen-based flame retardance package. Currently, the flat devise is part of a lithium-ion battery system for a German sports car.