An era where intelligence lives in, on, and around us — always present, always powered, truly invisible.
Powering the Intelligent Edge with the world’s first printed rechargeable microbatteries, made in America.
MesoCell™ by Motif Materials
Solid-state energy at micro scale.
The next era of computing is waiting
for a battery technology that provides more power in less space.
Until batteries shrink, wearables won’t disappear
Every smart ring, earbud, and glasses frame is engineered around its battery — not the human body.
AI demands more than batteries can supply.
Always-on sensing, edge-inference, and continuous connectivity are too much for today’s small batteries.
Solid-state batteries cost too much for wearables.
At much more than $50/mAh, today’s SSBs are too expensive — even for medical — leaving wearable designers no choice but Li-ion.
Liquid electrolytes can’t survive PCB assembly or autoclaving.
Batteries that can’t handle high temperatures make manufacturing and implantation awkward.
Digitally 3D-printed solid-state microbatteries break the energy density wall
Up to double the energy density
…of conventional micro Li-ion.
SMT- & Reflow-ready
…builds into circuit boards like any other component.
Any shape - as thin as 0.5mm
…with minimal application prep and no tooling.
Made in America
…end-to-end from commodity raw materials to finished cells.
For wearables, implantables, and IoT.
Healthcare and medical
Implantables • CGM/insulin • Cardiac patches • Neural interfaces
Autoclave-sterilizable batteries with custom form factors - enabling wireless-rechargeable implants, extending-wear monitoring patches, and continuous diagnostic devices.
Consumer wearables
Smart glasses • Earbuds • Smart rings
SMT-compatible batteries up to twice the energy density of Li-ion at small scale — enabling thinner, lighter, longer-lasting consumer devices.
Defense
Soldier wearables • Asset tracking • Drones
long shelf life, energy-autonomous with harvesting, damage-tolerant and inherently safe for munitions and on-soldier applications.
Industrial IoT
RFID tags • Sensors • Asset tracking
Zero self-discharge + energy harvesting + 250C tolderance = truly maintenance-free sensors deployable in any environment. indefinitely.
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World Class Team
MOTIF was founded by two groups who each held half the puzzle.
One team built solid-state batteries with breakthrough chemistry but without a scalable manufacturing solution. The other built a dry-particle digital printing process that can manufacture brilliantly at scale, and dreamed of applying its breakthrough high resolution to battery materials.
Neither knew of the other until a chance conversation at a Minneapolis trade show in the fall of 2024 brought them together.
The result is the only team in the world that has taken both solid-state battery chemistry and high-resolution dry particle printing to commercial scale. We were built for this.
John Lees
CEOJohn led the engineering and sales teams that scaled a novel dry-particle digital printing process from lab concept to TRL9 commercial production at Evolve Additive Solutions — the process MOTIF now applies to batteries. Previously held technical and commercial leadership roles at Optomec, Bosch Packaging, and Tetra Pak, where he spent 17 years learning how to build manufacturing businesses that scale. He co-founded MOTIF to bring that manufacturing DNA to the micro battery problem nobody else is solving.
Prof. Brian Hayden
CTOBrian founded Ilika plc (LSE: IKA) in 2004 and served as Chief Scientific Officer as it became one of the world's leading solid-state battery companies. He pioneered the combinatorial materials synthesis methodology that underpins modern solid-state battery research, holds 32 active patent families, and has published over 150 refereed papers. He joined MOTIF to build the technology that makes solid-state chemistry ubiquitous. Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Southampton. Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Physics.
Gary led Ilika’s business development efforts in the medical market building the commercial relationships that established solid-state batteries as a credible technology for implantable medical applications and wearable devices. At Texas Instruments he lead business strategy targeting ASICs for Implantable devices resulting in $300M in design wins at the top OEMs. He knows the hearing aid OEMs, the implantable device companies, and the wearables startups that MesoCell is built for. He joined MOTIF to go beyond selling the promise of solid-state batteries — to selling the real thing.
VP Business Development