Stratus Materials
Volta MemberVFPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
About
Stratus Materials develops and makes LXMO, a cobalt-free, manganese-rich cathode material for lithium-ion batteries, aimed mainly at electric vehicles.
The company says LXMO offers the energy density of high-nickel NMC with the cost and safety of LFP. Pouch cells built by a third party with its first-generation material passed 1,000 full depth-of-discharge cycles while keeping more than 80% of their initial capacity. A second-generation version, LXMO-2, is now sampling.
Stratus Materials was founded in early 2022 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where it has made cathode material on a 1-ton-per-year pre-pilot line since early 2023.
Listed In
In the Battery Report
Stratus Materials is named on 3 pages across 2 editions of Volta Foundation's annual Battery Report.
Supply Chain Segments
Battery Chemistries
Lithium-ion (Li-ion)
Location Info
- HQ
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Quick Facts
- Team Size
- 11-50
- Funding
- Private
- Last Updated
- Oct 14, 2026
