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Company Chapter – BASF / BASF Shanshan – Germany / China
Version: 2026-04-01, for paid subscribers
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This chapter covers BASF / BASF Shanshan's solid-state Li-ion battery-related product development efforts and corresponding patent portfolio:
- Five product development concepts spanning sulfide argyrodite electrolytes, glassy halide catholytes, dual-coated high-nickel cathode active materials, and anode passivation layers, supported by 21 analyzed patent families with a recent triweekly patent update.
- Technology assessment covering benchmarking data, unique capability positioning as a materials supplier to solid-state cell manufacturers, consistency analysis of public statements versus patent portfolio, scale-up risk factors, and the underlying scientific hypothesis of the portfolio's bilayer electrolyte thesis.
- Go-to-market and commercial angle including OEM and cell-maker partnership milestones, validation gates for customer adoption, non-core division status and partnership situation, and an illustrative material / cell / process projection integrating the concepts into a customer-assembled cell architecture.
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Document size: ≈3,700 words, 9 images, 1 adjacent Excel file (list of patent families with AI-based summaries)
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