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News Summary:
- Integrates heat flow, evolved gas, and electrochemical analysis in a single experiment, enabling early insights into thermal runaway phenomena.
- Unique full-cell test design eliminates the need to disassemble batteries, reducing sample preparation time by more than 90%.
- Industry-leading Coin Cell DSC detection temperature range from –80 to 600 °C, supporting battery development and quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC).
MILFORD, Massachusetts, USAJune 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today announced the launch of the WatersTM TA Instruments™ Coin Cell Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC), designed specifically to revolutionize battery safety testing. This instrument is tailored for battery researchers, enabling direct testing of fully assembled coin cells, eliminating tedious pre-treatment steps, while providing faster and more comprehensive safety and performance characterization data.
Waters TA Instruments Coin Cell Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
The Coin Cell DSC is one of the few commercially available differential scanning calorimeters on the market capable of multi-dimensional data acquisition1, allowing simultaneous measurement of evolved gas and electrochemical performance while performing full-cell thermal analysis. By integrating voltage monitoring and charge/discharge functions, researchers can directly establish correlations between thermal and electrochemical behavior, gaining earlier insights into thermal runaway and battery failure. Additionally, the system can be coupled with mass spectrometry (MS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), or gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) systems for direct analysis of evolved gas components.
Yu Cheng, Vice President of Research and Product Solutions for the Materials Science Division at Waters Corporation, stated: “The Coin Cell DSC represents a significant breakthrough in battery thermal analysis. The parallel acquisition of thermal analysis, evolved gas, and electrochemical data not only significantly improves testing efficiency but also enables precise correlation of multi-dimensional data from the same sample at an early stage of development, yielding deeper insights. Thanks to its wide testing temperature range and streamlined workflow, this system reduces experimental complexity and outperforms existing testing solutions.”
The Coin Cell DSC features a unique capsule design that eliminates the time-consuming step of disassembling batteries, reducing average sample preparation time by more than 90%2. This design effectively preserves sample integrity while significantly accelerating data acquisition.
This new system combines exceptional temperature performance, an efficient workflow, and multi-dimensional data acquisition, redefining the performance technical standards for battery thermal analysis. The Coin Cell DSC offers a testing temperature range from –80 to 600 °C3, 4, among the industry’s leading levels, enabling comprehensive characterization of battery behavior at both low and high temperatures, expanding future applications in research and development as well as quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC).
Shirley Meng, Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and Director of the Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA), said: “For a long time, the battery industry has urgently needed an effective solution to bridge the gap between material thermal analysis and full-cell DSC testing. This technology, by integrating evolved gas analysis and electrochemical data, achieves a comprehensive assessment of full-cell thermal stability—a critical factor for advancing early-stage battery safety research.”
Traditional battery safety testing technologies, such as Accelerating Rate Calorimeters (ARC), are typically applied in later stages of development and require batteries of a certain size, specialized facilities, and lengthy experimental times. In contrast, the Coin Cell DSC can directly test complete coin cells in the early stages of development, significantly reducing testing time, thereby streamlining the development process and lowering development risks.
The Waters TA Instruments Coin Cell DSC is now available for order, with shipments expected to begin in August 2026.
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About Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) is a global leader in the life sciences and diagnostics field, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of cutting-edge science through analytical technology, informatics, and services. We focus on regulated, high-throughput testing, and our innovative product portfolio combines deep scientific expertise in chemistry, physics, and biology. Working with customers worldwide, we aim to advance the launch of high-quality drugs, ensure the safety of food and water, and improve patient health through early disease detection, routine infection management, and antibiotic resistance prevention. Driven by a shared culture of relentless innovation, approximately 16,000 passionate employees worldwide transform scientific challenges into breakthrough results that benefit the globe.
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1. Based on an internal evaluation of 26 commercial DSCs on the market as of May 27, 2026. Source: Internal data. |
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2. Based on an internal study comparing six users using traditional sample preparation methods with six users using the Coin Cell DSC sample preparation method. Source: Internal data. |
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3. Waters TA Instruments Coin Cell DSC Product Brochure. Source: Internal data. |
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4. Based on an internal evaluation of 3 DSCs on the market capable of testing complete coin cells as of May 27, 2026. Source: Internal data. |