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Set the standard in an industry where there is none

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Set the standard in an industry where there is none

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Advances in lithium-ion battery (LiB) technology are accelerating. Fueled by growth in the EV market, demand is skyrocketing. Suppliers must scale up while ensuring consistent product performance and process efficiency. Whether it’s cutting-edge research or commercial production, testing provides the information that drives innovation.

More than accuracy and precision, reliable testing requires consistency—not just test-to-test, but across the entire development and production cycle. However, in an industry still evolving, standardized testing—using the same high-quality technology, diagnostic software and processes—is an anomaly. But it does exist.

Advances in lithium-ion battery (LiB) technology are accelerating. Fueled by growth in the EV market, demand is skyrocketing. Suppliers must scale up while ensuring consistent product performance and process efficiency. Whether it’s cutting-edge research or commercial production, testing provides the information that drives innovation.

More than accuracy and precision, reliable testing requires consistency—not just test-to-test, but across the entire development and production cycle. However, in an industry still evolving, standardized testing—using the same high-quality technology, diagnostic software and processes—is an anomaly. But it does exist.


KRÜSS Helps You Get There

KRÜSS Helps You Get There

Testing yields the data and insights that enable increased productivity, higher energy capacity and lower costs. KRÜSS helps you get there. From R&D through production, we support you with the interfacial test equipment, software, and technical expertise you need to extract more insight, value, and innovation across your processes.

A global leader of interfacial testing

KRÜSS partners with manufacturers and research facilities, helping drive improvements across the entire development cycle. With more than 200 years of technical experience, an extensive portfolio of instrumentation and the ADVANCE software platform, KRÜSS enables you to standardize your testing strategy. From improving the wettability and calendaring of electrodes to battery recyclability, we provide the end-to-end expertise and testing solutions that enable you to change the world.

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A global leader of interfacial testing

KRÜSS partners with manufacturers and research facilities, helping drive improvements across the entire development cycle. With more than 200 years of technical experience, an extensive portfolio of instrumentation and the ADVANCE software platform, KRÜSS enables you to standardize your testing strategy. From improving the wettability and calendaring of electrodes to battery recyclability, we provide the end-to-end expertise and testing solutions that enable you to change the world.


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We help bring your innovation to the surface

When it comes to developing and producing the batteries that will enable the future, the next leap in innovation lies just beneath the surface. Revealing it involves a rigorous process of developing, testing, refining, and retesting. Potential innovation lies at the intersection of surfaces.

Interfacial testing is critical in understanding how dissimilar liquids and solids react to each other. It plays a critical role in multiple phases of the development and production of LiB, including:

  Slurry formulation

  Coating
  Wetting
  Calendaring
  Drying
  Formation

We help bring your innovation
to the surface

When it comes to developing and producing the batteries that will enable the future, the next leap in innovation lies just beneath the surface. Revealing it involves a rigorous process of developing, testing, refining, and retesting. Potential innovation lies at the intersection of surfaces.

Interfacial testing is critical in understanding how dissimilar liquids and solids react to each other. It plays a critical role in multiple phases of the development and production of LiB, including:

Slurry formulation

Coating
Wetting
Calendaring
Drying
Formation

The right instruments for your applications

When it comes to testing instrumentation, KRÜSS offers unmatched product breadth and depth of engineering. Our LiB portfolio features drop shape analyzers and tensiometers that are regularly regarded as among the most precise, accurate, and easiest to use. Designed and engineered at our global headquarters in Germany, they cover a range of applications.

Each instrument type offers a wide variety of options and functionality—manually operated or automated, two- or three-axis rotation, portable or stationary, large sample sizes or microscopic, on-site quality checks or intensive research in the lab. For testing accuracy, precision, and repeatability across your development and production processes, partner with KRÜSS.

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The right instruments for your applications

When it comes to testing instrumentation, KRÜSS offers unmatched product breadth and depth of engineering. Our LiB portfolio features drop shape analyzers and tensiometers that are regularly regarded as among the most precise, accurate, and easiest to use. Designed and engineered at our global headquarters in Germany, they cover a range of applications.

Each instrument type offers a wide variety of options and functionality—manually operated or automated, two- or three-axis rotation, portable or stationary, large sample sizes or microscopic, on-site quality checks or intensive research in the lab. For testing accuracy, precision, and repeatability across your development and production processes, partner with KRÜSS.

Drop shape analyzers help optimize
  Wetting of electrodes

  Saturation of separator membrane
  Coating of current collector with slurry

Tensiometers measure and help optimize
  Dispersibility of electrode materials in slurry

  Wetting rate for multiple battery components
  Electrolyte surface tension for flawless ion transfer

MSA One-Click SFE

Mobile Surface Analyzer
MSA One-Click SFE
Analyzing wettability in a second with only one click

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Drop Shape Analyzer
DSA100S
The semi-automatic premium solution for wettability analysis

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K100

Force Tensiometer
K100
The premium instrument for analyzing surfactants and solid surfaces

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Don’t just test, ADVANCE your understanding

The KRÜSS ADVANCE software platform does more than enable consistent instrument control and data analysis. It helps you optimize material combinations and identify, at a glance, the most promising areas of exploration.

ADVANCE follows a universal workflow—prepare, perform, review, evaluate—that ensures every measurement is based in scientific principle. Its user-friendly interface eliminates multiple menus and pop-ups and guides you through each test – from sample prep to exporting your data.

Results Validation enables you to set pass/fail parameters and immediately identify the metrics that are inside and outside prescribed tolerances. With the ability to assign customized user permissions, you can share test setups and results among your team. KRÜSS ADVANCE not only saves time and effort, it brings the bigger picture into focus and gives you a competitive advantage.

Don’t just test, ADVANCE your understanding

The KRÜSS ADVANCE software platform does more than enable consistent instrument control and data analysis. It helps you optimize material combinations and identify, at a glance, the most promising areas of exploration.

ADVANCE follows a universal workflow—prepare, perform, review, evaluate—that ensures every measurement is based in scientific principle. Its user-friendly interface eliminates multiple menus and pop-ups and guides you through each test – from sample prep to exporting your data.

Results Validation enables you to set pass/fail parameters and immediately identify the metrics that are inside and outside prescribed tolerances. With the ability to assign customized user permissions, you can share test setups and results among your team. KRÜSS ADVANCE not only saves time and effort, it brings the bigger picture into focus and gives you a competitive advantage.


Our technical expertise, your testing proficiency

Our technical expertise,
your testing proficiency

Our technical team are experts in the field of interfacial testing. We work with you to ensure you’re getting the most from your KRÜSS testing program. Got questions about instrumentation, test methods, application, or measurement interpretation? We’re here for you via phone or computer. Need us to install and train you on your new instrument? No problem, and if you ever need a refresher course, we’re happy to provide basic or advanced training.

Other support services include:

  Sample testing as a contract service
  Use of the KRÜSS Lab for in-depth analysis
  Instrument maintenance and care plans
  Q/OQ (Instrument Qualification/Operational Qualification) certification

KRÜSS partners with our customers over the long term. We learn from them and they from us. As a result, we’re both a little smarter.

Never stop learning

If you’re driven by wonder and an unrelenting search for better, we should talk. We’d love to learn what inspires you and see how KRÜSS can take you further.