3rd Party Cell Validation and Safety Testing Sample Clauses

3rd Party Cell Validation and Safety Testing. The goal of this subtask is to demonstrate commercial feasibility of the downselected electrolytes and current collectors optimized in Task 2 and Task 3, respectively, by validating equal or improved performance when cell capacity is increased 100-fold from single-layer to multi-layer pouch cells. Fabrication of multi-Ah cells and destructive safety testing requires expensive infrastructure; therefore, cells will be built and safety tests will be performed with the downselected cell building partner. The Recipient shall: • Validate downselected electrolytes from Task 2 in high-capacity multi-layer pouch cells. Four different cell builds of 36 cells each consisting of three different electrolyte formulations (3 formulations x 12 cells each) will be executed in support of Task 2. These cells will be split into sets of 4 with some cells tested by the cell building partner, some cells tested by Recipient, and some cells subjected to destructive safety testing. A total of 144 cells will be built and tested, evaluating 12 downselected electrolyte formulations at multi-Ah scale. • Validate downselected “anode-free” current collectors from Task 3 in high-capacity multi- layer pouch cells. Three different cell builds of 36 cells each consisting of three different current collectors (3 current collectors x 12 cells each) will be executed in support of Task