Hindustan Zinc and JNCASR Collaborate for New-Age Zinc-Based Battery Technologies

Hindustan Zinc Limited, India's largest and the world's second-largest integrated zinc producer, has signed an MoU with Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) to develop new variants of zinc materials for commercialization of zinc-based batteries. The collaboration aims to leverage zinc's abundant resource availability, cost-effectiveness, and sustainable practices, addressing challenges posed by lithium-ion batteries such as availability, geographic concentration, and safety concerns. Zinc-based batteries offer long duration storage, cost-effectiveness, durability, and a proven safety track record. The collaboration will focus on research and development of Zinc alloys as anodes for Zinc-ion and Zinc-Air batteries, developing electrolytes for high-performance Zinc alloy anodes, and designing & developing chemical processes for recycling Zinc metal-based batteries.