Technology

One material that cools heat — then blocks fire

Thermorphous® is our adaptive platform. It conducts heat to keep batteries efficient in normal use, then transforms into a fire-protection insulator when a fault pushes temperature past a threshold — resolving the conductor-vs-insulator dilemma that causes battery fires.

The dilemma we solve

Battery fires persist because engineers are forced to choose between two materials that each solve only half the problem.

Option A

Heat-conduction material

Cools the cells — but offers no fire protection when a cell fails.

Option B

Heat-insulation material

Blocks fire — but traps heat and hurts efficiency and battery life in normal use.

Thermorphous

Both, in one material

Conducts heat below the threshold; foams into a fire-protection insulator above ~120 °C. No compromise.

How Thermorphous® works

At normal battery operating temperatures, Thermorphous® is thermally conductive — placed between cells, it dissipates heat to maintain efficiency and long battery life. Should a cell overheat above roughly 120 °C, the material transforms and foams into an excellent thermal insulator, providing fire protection that prevents high temperature from spreading to adjacent cells. It can withstand up to 1000 °C should the incident escalate into a thermal runaway.

This adaptive, two-in-one behaviour is protected by a patent portfolio (patent pending: US 18/565447, EP 4347718, CN 202280046769X, JP 100107456).

Benchmarked against the alternatives

Across typical thermal-runaway barrier materials (aerogel, mica, composite fabrics) and thermal-interface materials (phase-change materials, thermal fluids), the Thermorphous® family spans a wide performance envelope — from thermally conductive below the transition to a barrier rated up to 1500 °C. In UL2596 backside-temperature testing, Pyrowerkz held a lower and more stable temperature than mica sheet, composite fabric and aerogel over a 30-minute exposure.

See it survive real fire and impact tests

Third-party UL2596 tests, nail-penetration and direct-flame demonstrations — watch the material perform.