While more efficient, effective, and economical batteries are critical to the world’s clean energy future, the path to bringing such technologies to market over the last 25 years is overwhelmingly littered with failure.A pair of Northwestern University researchers and a Northwestern-affiliated startup, however, are touting a different way and have pulled inspiration from a seemingly unlikely place: the pharmaceutical world.
In a recent paper published in MRS Energy & Sustainability, Vinayak Dravid, the Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering, his graduate student Eve Hanson, and SiNode Systems co-founder and CEO Samir Mayekar propose an updated model of U.S. battery commercialization.
