
The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has licensed two lithium-ion battery technologies to companies aiming to eliminate thermal runaway and deliver a closed loop recycling system.
The first was to Soteria Battery Innovation Group (BIG), which exclusively licensed and optioned a technology developed to eliminate thermal runaway in mechanically damaged lithium-ion batteries.
Image: ORNL’s Ramesh Bhave in his laboratory in March 2019. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy
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