Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Researchers led by chemist Joseph DeSimone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in collaboration with Nitash P. Commercial Lithium-ion batteries usually contain an electrolyte that is dissolved in flammable organic solvents; damage to the battery from a variety of causes can result in fire, sometimes with catastrophic effect.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) battery scientist Nitash Balsara and co-inventor Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have launched Blue Current , a startup company backed by investment firm Faster LLC, to commercialize their non-flammable electrolytes for Li-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Berkeley Lab battery scientist Nitash Balsara, working with collaborator Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill led the effort on the hybrid electrolyte. Dominica H. Balsara was one of the co-founders of battery startup Seeo, founded in 2007 to develop a solid block copolymer electrolyte. earlier post ).

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