Replies to post #26817 on XNRGI Inc fka NPWZ

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Dow Chemical is listed next to XNRGI as a sponsor at the battery conference...interesting links to Tekion and Dow researcher Bob Morgan..

Leading companies of a Organic Acid market that has gained an appreciable share in a market (covered company profiles and Organic Acid business performance based on sales revenue, product cost and gross margin) include Dow Chemical, ADM, Tate & Lyle, Eastman, Cargill, Myriant Corporation, Calanese Corporation, DuPont, BASF and Henan Jindan Lactic Acid Technology.

Analysis based on the type of product to explore the scope of the global Organic Acid market includes Acetic Acid, Formic Acid, Propionic Acid and Citric Acid.

The fundamental dif­ference between a fuel cell and a battery is that a fuel cell is an energy generation device whereas a battery is an energy storage device. A battery discharges over a period of time until it needs to be re­charged. Rapid recharging of a battery of­ten causes serious complications and as a result recharging a battery is a prolonged process. By contrast a fuel cell generates electricity immediately in the presence of its reactants. Once the formic acid replenished, the Neah Power Systems Forima fuel cell generates electricity in­stantly. As a result there is no protracted recharging or refueling time issue.




https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267320228_A_Hybrid-Silicon_Miniature_Hydrogen_Fuel_Cell_for_Portable_Power_Generation

Bob Morgan
Dow Corning Corporation

Kevin Y Lin
21.59University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Richard I. Masel


Abstract
The objective of this talk is to describe a 1mm^2 hybrid hydrogen / self-breathing cathode fuel cell that produces a higher power output than other previously reported miniature hydrogen fuel cells. As background, MEMS based fuel cells have been proposed to replace batteries in distributed sensor networks, on chip power, and implantable devices. As of yet, MEMS based fuel cells give performance no better than miniature batteries [1-9]. Prior to our work, the best MEMS based hydrogen/air fuel cell only produced 70 mW/cm2 compared to 149 mW/cm2 in our device. Yu et al[2] showed 195 mW/cm2 by running pure oxygen on the cathode, but note that powers are 4-5 times higher with oxygen than with air. Our device shows the highest power output of those shown previously.

A Hybrid-Silicon Miniature Hydrogen Fuel Cell for Portable.... Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267320228_A_Hybrid-Silicon_Miniature_Hydrogen_Fuel_Cell_for_Portable_Power_Generation [accessed May 20 2018].

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-morgan-15a6648/?locale=de_DE

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-morgan-15a6648/

Currently at Dow Chemical....

Graduate Research Assistant
Company Name University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dates Employed
Aug 2006 – May 2011 Employment Duration
4 yrs 10 mos
I worked on teams to develop miniature Formic Acid and Hydrogen Fuel Cells. Fuel cells were fabricated via both micro fabrication techniques as well as small scale fuel cell hardware. Carried out anode catalyst modification via both adatoms and conductive polymers. Electrochemical characterization of modified catalyst layers were tested both in an electrochemical cell and fuel cell environment. Examined catalyst layers by SEM, TEM, XPS. Also fabricated stable Pd on CNT catalysts for Formic acid fuel cell anodes. Carried out electrochemical testing both in and out of a fuel cell. Also characterized via SEM, TEM , XPS and XRD.


https://www.linkedin.com/



https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-masel-27563310/

Founder and CTO
Company Name Tekion
Dates Employed Feb 2002 – Jun 2006 Employment Duration 4 yrs 5 mos
Inventor of formic acid fuel cell. Led the development of the first working fuel cell power unit for cell phone. Company partnered with Motorola

Also helped fabricate 9 square mm hydrogen fuel cells with silicon scaffold. Developed and optimized mm scale Formic acid fuel cells.

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Is XNRGI one of the Argonne lab's unnamed few

Both Companies Enevate and Xnrgi are Gold Sponors with DOW and 123 Systems


https://www.advancedautobat.com/aabc-us/current-sponsor.html

The Battery Boost We’ve Been Waiting for Is Only a Few Years Out
Date: March 19, 2018
Source: Wall Street Journal
The batteries that power our modern world -- from phones to drones to electric cars -- will soon experience something not heard of in years: Their capacity to store electricity will jump by double-digit percentages, according to researchers, developers and manufacturers.

The next wave of batteries, long in the pipeline, is ready for commercialization.

https://www.mema.org/battery-boost-we%E2%80%99ve-been-waiting-only-few-years-out

The trick is, silicon brings with it countless technical challenges. For instance, a pure silicon anode will soak up so many lithium ions that it gets “pulverized” after a single charge, says George Crabtree, Ph.D., director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, established by the U.S. Department of Energy at the University of Chicago Argonne lab to accelerate battery research.

Current battery anodes can have small amounts of silicon, boosting their performance slightly. The amount of silicon in a company’s battery is a closely held trade secret, but Dr. Crabtree estimates that in any battery, silicon is at most 10 percent of the anode. In 2015, Tesla founder Elon Musk revealed that silicon in the Panasonic-made batteries of the auto maker’s Model S helped boost the car’s range by 6 percent.

Now, some startups say they are developing production-ready batteries with anodes that are mostly silicon. Sila Nanotechnologies, Angstron Materials, Enovix and Enevate, to name a few, offer materials for so-called lithium-silicon batteries, which are being tested by the world’s largest battery manufacturers, car companies and consumer-electronics companies.