DR, RICHARD KANER, PHD- UCLA DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRYAND MATERIALS, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING:
Every day we are surrounded by household items that are powered bylithium Ion batteries, including your cell phones, and your laptop computers. Ifa lithium ion battery gets shot off, the energy gets released suddenly causingtemperature to rise rapidly hundreds of degrees in milliseconds leading to thebattery to catch on fire.
Take the electric cars for example, there are thousands of lithium Ionbatteries that make up the battery pack. If they all catch on fire at the sametime, the explosion is massive.
They are so much concern about the lithium ion batteries igniting that the U.S.has banned transporting them in cargo and passenger flights.
ANDREAS HINTENNACH - PHD DAIMLER-MERCEDES BENZ, GLOBAL HEAD OFBATTERY RESEARCH:
3 years ago, we challenged Nanotech Energy to provide us thesafest energy battery chemistry, non flammable and extremely safe.
DR JACK KAVANAUGH - CEO AND CHAIRMAN, NANOTECH ENERGY INC:
We saw the challenge and created batteries that are safe, not justsafer, last longer, charge faster and we manufacture in the United States.
Dr, Richard Kaner, PhD - UCLA Distinguished Professor of Chemistryand Materials, Science and Technology:
Amazingly we use graphite, the material found in ordinary pencilto build our batteries. This is themiraculous structure of graphite and the top layer is known as graphene. It is hundredtimes stronger than steel.
We took the graphene and we used it as the building block toconstruct our safe non inflammable batteries.
MAHER EI-KADY, PHD - INVENTOR CTO, NANOTECH ENERGY, INC:
We made the battery safe by changing the internal structure of thebattery and replacing the traditional electrolyte with another one that is noninflammable but is also inexpensive, easy to manufacture and is practical forall weather conditions.
In the electrolyte flame test we placed two B3 dishes and side byside poured the traditional lithium electrolyte and the nanotech energyelectrolyte in the other dish, even took the blue torch to the two liquids. Asyou can see traditional lithium ion electrolyte ignites the flame while thenanotech energy electrolyte remains intact.
SCOTT LAINE, COO NANOTECH ENERGY, INC:
Now that you see what happens with the standard lithium ion batteryyou find in cars electronics and computers where they catch on the fire You seenow when we do the same thing with Nanotech battery, our battery will not catchon fire, it will dead shot and die but won’t catch on fire.
This whole little battery is still hot from the dead shot itselfbut overall the battery is still intact, no flame no fire, no explosion.
BRIAN MC VERY, PHD- CO-INVENTOR UCLA SCIENTIST:
In addition to the break though, our batteries with topperformances in terms of how long youuse it before charging , how fast can you charge and discharge the batteriesand how many times you can recharge the battery with them so working.
ANDREAS HINTENNACH, PHD- DAIMLER-MERCEDES BENZ, GLOBAL HEAD OFBATTERY RESEARCH:
Usually you sacrificeperformances once you develop extremelysafe chemistries. At Nanotech energy we have extremely safe chemistries that providehigh performance now. It the first time that we have extremely safe cells and weare very pleased about that
DR. JACK KAVANAUGH, CEO AND CHAIRMAN, NANOTECH COMPANY
In the next year we will release an environmentally friendlybattery that actually charge 18 times faster than anything than anything is upto now.
We believe that this will revolutionize your electrical devices.