A battery-technology scout, built on four calls.

Picture a small research team that advises battery-materials investors. Every Monday someone spends the morning in patent databases, copying assignee names into a spreadsheet and guessing which of them are real companies worth a call.

What they could build instead.

1. Search patents for the technology
POST /v1/search · category patent
Example, captured from our live index · test key
“sodium-ion battery cathode material”
156,596 matches. This page is full but no further page can be issued, so these are not necessarily all the matches. Narrow the search, or sort it, to reach the rest. Captured 30 Sept 2026.
1. SODIUM ION BATTERY POSITIVE ELECTRODE MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR, POSITIVE ELECTRODE SHEET, SECONDARY BATTERY, AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE
  HUBEI WANRUN NEW ENERGY TECH CO LTD · applied
2. POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SODIUM-ION BATTERIESPositive electrode active material for sodium-ion batteries
  FUNDACION CENTRO DE INVESTIG COOPERATIVA DE ENERGIAS ALTERNATIVAS CIC ENERGIGUNE FUNDAZIOA · granted
3. High-performance sodium ion battery titanium-based cathode, sodium ion battery and preparation method
  UNIV HUAZHONG SCIENCE TECH · granted
2. Find the companies building it
POST /v1/search · category company
Example, captured from our live index · test key
“sodium-ion battery manufacturers with more than 50 employees”
Read as industry Manufacturing · headcount 51+. 1,670 matches. The API returned no caveats. Captured 30 Sept 2026.
1. Natron Energy
  natron.energy · Manufacturing · United States · 73 people
2. Nexeon Ltd
  nexeonglobal.com · Manufacturing · United Kingdom · 117 people
3. Solid Power, Inc.
  solidpowerbattery.com · Manufacturing · United States · 227 people
3. Check who is hiring for it
POST /v1/search · category job_opening
Example, captured from our live index · test key
“sodium-ion battery engineer jobs”
Read as title Sodium-Ion Battery Engineer. 2 matches. The API returned no caveats. Captured 30 Sept 2026.
1. Doctoral candidate: Sustainable Sodium-Ion Batteries: Engineered Solid-Liquid and Solid-Solid-Liquid Interfaces with Recyclable components (f/m/d)
  inm-leibniz institute for new materials · Saarbrücken, Saarland · 2026-07-21
2. MSCA-DN e-ChemIn - Doctoral Candidate (DC15): Sustainable sodium-ion batteries: engineered solid-liquid and solid-solid-liquid interfaces with recyclable components (f/m/d)
  inm-leibniz institute for new materials · Saarbrücken, Saarland · 2026-07-20
4. See who else is publishing
POST /v1/search · category academic_report
Example, captured from our live index · test key
“sodium-ion battery cathode materials”
659,896 matches. Vector retrieval was unavailable, so this ran as keyword matching. Results are literal rather than semantic. · This page is full but no further page can be issued, so these are not necessarily all the matches. Narrow the search, or sort it, to reach the rest. Captured 30 Sept 2026.
1. Perspective Cathode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries
  Fund Science and Culture Support Centre · article · 2021-01-01
2. Research of Cathode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries
  Darcy & Roy Press Co. Ltd. · article · 2024-11-07
3. Review of cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries
  Elsevier BV · article · 2024-03-02

What it could change.

The Monday search becomes a script, and the team starts the week reading a shortlist instead of building one. We make no claim about time saved; that depends on the team and on the technology they follow.

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By Dr. Junaid Farooq, Chief Architect & VP of AI, Sprouts.ai · Updated 30 September 2026

A battery-technology scout, built on four calls.

What they could build instead.

1. Search patents for the technology

2. Find the companies building it

3. Check who is hiring for it

4. See who else is publishing

What it could change.