Powering Batteries Beyond Lithium

Building on the Best of Lithium

Potassium-ion Batteries to power domestic, resilient energy storage

Group1 is the world's first company commercializing a non-flammable, critical-mineral-free potassium-ion battery that strengthens national security by enabling a fully domestic supply chain for energy storage.

The company’s focus on technology differentiation is fundamental to its existence and underpins its disruptive presence in the global marketplace.

Developed in the legendary lab of 2019 Chemistry Nobel laureate Professor JB Goodenough (co-inventor of the LiB), Group1's game-changing technology is the most practical beyond-lithium solution. Group1 enables (1) a domestic supply chain, (2) compatibility with commercially available graphite anodes, and (3) is “drop-in” — seamlessly integrated into existing LiB manufacturing infrastructure and LiB cell design.

KiBs are THE beyond-lithium solution that provides the best combination of safety, sustainability, and performance.

World’s First 3.7V KIB

Mobility and Grid Applications for KIB


Meet our Leadership

Meet the Team

  • Michelle Manning

    Senior Operations Staff

  • Hailong Lyu, Ph.D.

    Senior Technical staff

  • Wentao Song, Ph.D.

    Senior Technical Staff

  • Patrick Crowley, M.S.

    Technical Staff

  • Cole Mough

    Technical Staff

  • Peyton Dowdle

    Technical Staff

  • Diego Perez

    Technical Staff

  • Benjamin Gibson

    Technical Staff

Board of Directors

  • Michael Bartholomeusz, Ph.D.

    Independent Director

  • Alexander L. Girau, M.S.

    Executive Director

  • Yakov Kutsovsky, Ph.D.

    Executive Director

Technical Advisory Board

  • Professor Martin Bazant, PhD.

    E. G. Roos (1944) Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering and Mathematics, MIT

  • Professor Keith Stevenson, Ph.D.

    World-Renowned Expert in Physical Electrochemistry

  • Professor Brian Koegel, Ph.D.

    Director of Energy Institute, University of Texas at Austin

Our Story

Founded in late 2021 and based in Austin, TX, Group1 — a spin-out of the 2019 Nobel laureate (and LIB co-inventor) Professor JB Goodenough's laboratory at UT-Austin — is an engineered materials company focusing on the commercialization of Potassium-ion batteries, expanding beyond the limitations of Lithium-ion batteries while building on the best of Lithium-ion technologies.

Group1 aims to practically enable high-power and long-cycling Potassium-ion batteries that can meet society’s future growth needs.

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