Drs. Leo Small and Melissa Meyerson, researchers with the Sandia Energy Storage program, collaborated with Albuquerque entrepreneur Charles Call to help bring Office of Electricity-funded research from the lab to local businesses. This collaboration was facilitated by the DOE Office of Technology Transitions Boost program.
This partnership aims to get big, safe, stationary lithium-sulfur flow batteries to market faster. As part of the collaborative research project, the team developed a new design for the lithium metal anode, allowing the battery to recharge faster. The team also wants to increase the battery’s capacity to store energy by increasing the amount of lithium or sulfur it contains.
Charles Call is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Offgrid LLC, Dba GridFlow, a startup manufacturing company that intends to build “water boxes” or technological units that would use solar energy to produce water from air.
Read the full story at https://newsreleases.sandia.gov/boosting_batteries/.
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity (OE), Energy Storage Division. Additionally, the collaboration between Sandia and GridFlow was supported by DOE Boost, funded by DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund, and administered by the Office of Technology Transitions.
