The Advanced Battery Research, Engineering, and Evaluation Facility (ABREE) at Sandia National Laboratories provides comprehensive capabilities in power source research, engineering, characterization, evaluation, and testing. Supporting ABREE is a staff of over forty scientists, engineers, and technicians with backgrounds in chemistry, electrochemistry, metallurgy, chemical engineering, materials science, engineering, and physics.
State-of-the-art equipment and software are available to perform a wide variety of research activities for almost any primary or rechargeable technology. Facilities include two dry rooms, numerous wet chemical laboratories, several battery test laboratories, and computer database management equipment. A 3,000 sq. ft. dry room and a smaller dry room with full-ventilation hoods have the equipment to fabricate and assemble finished thermal batteries and lithium ambient-temperature batteries from raw materials.
Nine business areas provide the focal points for ABREE activities:
This facility is available to support any application that can benefit from its unique capabilities. To make arrangements to use it, contact the user liaison.