BT Innovations

Dr Beattied awarded four NSERC ENGAGE grants, 2017-2019

Dr. Beattie is quoted in a Reuters article about sprinking silicon in Li-ion batteries, Nov, 2018

Elcora awarded ~$500k NRC-IRAP project, 2018

Elcora awarded NSBI Productivity and Innovation grant Tier II, 2018

Elcora awarded four Youth Employment Strategy grants, Sept 2017, May 2018

Elcora awarded NSBI Productivity and Innovation grant, Tier 1, Nov 1, 2017

BTInnovations announces Weather Tracker for commercial sale, Feb 14, 2017

BTInnovations developes a low cost circuit for testing Li-ion batteries, Aug 17, 2016

BTInnovations developes a weather station based on a Raspberry Pi Zero, Aug 1, 2016

Publication on understanding capacity fade in silicon based electrodes for lithium-ion batteries

Presentation on Low cost Raspberry Pi cell cyclers at UKES, Birmingham, England, Nov 2105

Oral presentation at ECS Phoenix, Oct 11-15, 2015

Dr. Beattie attends ABAA 8 in Bilbao Spain, Sept 2015

Representatives from WMG visit Argonne National Labs, the Dahn lab, and attend the Battery Show in Novi Michigan, Sept 2015

Warwick named as Electrical Energy Storage Spoke in 1 billion Advanced Propulsion Centre

WMG leads project to create $28 million UK automotive battery pack research facility (Sept. 2015)

Awarded Amorpheus, EPSRC, collaboration with Cambridge (Clare Grey) and UCL (Dan Brett), $2M, (July 2015)

Awarded 96 hours Beam time on XMaS, ESRF, Grenoble, France (May 2015)

Warwick named as Electrical Energy Storage Spoke in $2B Advanced Propulsion Centre (co-author of APC energy storage technology road-map)

Oral presentation at Glasgow Conference - ECS with SOFC-XIV, July 26-31, 2015

BTInnovations anounces the Energy Innovation Centre at Warwick University

Dr. Beattie attends STFC, Abingdon, England, June 2-3, 2014

Friday, October 4th, Dr. Beattie is awarded a spot award from Nexeon for identifying and characterizing faliure mechanisms specific to silicon-based anode materials

Friday, February 22nd, Nexeon has signed a strategic partnership agreement with WACKER Chemie AG. The companies have announced that they will co-operate on the scale-up of Nexeon's silicon anode technology to commercial volumes.

Thursday February 14th, Nexeon has won the Rushlight Award for Energy Efficiency 2012-2013.

Friday, October 19th, 2012, Dr. Beattie is given an award (Idea Champion) for his recent contributions to Nexon's technology

Monday, April 2nd, 2012, Dr. Beattie accepts a position to work with Nexon Inc.

Friday, March 9th, 2012, BTInnovations signs a contract with UNB to produce economical coin cell crimpers. First unit shipped the same day.

Monday, Dec 12th, 2011, Dr. Beattie's participation in the ENGAGE program is highlighted in NSERC's InPartnership December 2011 report

Monday, Nov 14th, 2011, Dr. Beattie will work with Nexeon to develop advanced Li-ion anode materials

Monday, June 13th, 2011, KnowCharge is a featured exhibitor at the SEUS-CP (South Eastern United States Canadian Provinces Alliance) conference.

Friday, May 13th, 2011, KnowCharge is awarded $15,750 from LearnSphere to trial a scaled version of their mixing technology

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011, KnowCharge is featured on the CBC news. View the clip here. An older interview (2009) can be found here

Monday, May 9th, 2011, KnowCharge is chosen as an exhibitor at the upcoming Southeastern United States - Canadian Provinces Alliance (SEUS-CP). SEUS-CP features New Brunswick's truly innovative companies working on world-class innovations.

Monday, Feb 28th, 2011, KnowCharge is joining other New Brunswick companies on a trade mission to China. The mission is sponsored and lead by the provincial government. The goal of the mission is to introduce NB companies to potential customers in Asia.

Monday, Feb 7th, 2011, KnowCharge is awarded $18,750 from LearnSphere to prototype a second generation of anti-static packaging

Friday, Dec 3rd, 2010, KnowCharge is awarded another NSERC ENGAGE grant ($25k), this time with Dr. Villemeur from the University of New Brunswick

Thursday, Dec 2nd, 2010, KnowCharge is featured in the Daily Gleaner again

Thursday, November 11th, 2010, KnowCharge is featured in the Daily Gleaner after attending the Entrepreneurs' Forum's New Brunswick Showcase

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010, KnowCharge is featured in the Dailey Gleaner

Thursday, October 28, 2010, KnowCharge is awarded $18,750 from LearnSphere to prototype new anti-static packaging paper products at the Herty Advanced Materials Center in Savannah, Georgia.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010, KnowCharge is awarded $7,041 from the Going Global Innovation (GGI) for travel to the Herty Advanced Materials Center to prototype new anti-static packaging paper

Monday, October 4, 2010, KnowCharge is awarded two NSERC ENGAGE grants ($25k each) with Dr. Dyker and Dr. Colpitts from the University of New Brunswick

Friday, September 17, 2010, Here's a link (from 2009) to an article on KnowCharge's technology

Tuesday, August 24, 2010, KnowCharge is featured on CBC Radio Swift. Listen to it here

Monday, June 21, 2010, Dr. Beattie joins KnowCharge Inc. as the Research and Development Manager

Tuesday, April 20, 2010, the Daily Gleaner publishes an article about solar cell research at UNB with Umoe Solar NB

Monday, April 19th, 2010, The University of New Brunswick announces partnership with Umoe Solar New Brunswick (USNB): News release

Also, USNB is awarded $30,620.84 from the NRC - Going Global Initiative program for travel to Norway to establish official collaborations between USNB and three world class solar cell research labs (IFE, SINTEF and NTNU)

Monday, April 12, 2010, Dr. Beattie is appointed as an "Honorary Research Assistant" in the School of Graduate Studies at the Universtiy of New Brunswick

Wednesday, Jan 27, 2010, Umoe Solar New Brunswick is awarded $3M from the Atlantic Innovation Fund (round VII) to study Advanced Solar Energy Conversion technology

Sunday, Jan 3, 2010
www.btinnovations.org goes live

Sunday, Nov 11, 2009
www.btinnovations.org website development begins