Filed Wednesday, June 17. 2009
Argonne National Laboratory is a key player in commercializing lithium-ion technology. Illinois can be as well if the state acts quickly. If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a region to raise economic viability for all.
Interest on last week’s column on lithium-ion battery commercialization has led to some great feedback from prominent readers as well as an interview with Jeff Chamberlin. He’s the senior account manager at Argonne’s office of technology transfer.
Argonne National Laboratory battery researchers (from left) Khalil Amine, Chris Johnson, Sun-Ho Kang and Mike Thackeray flank a continuously stirred tank reactor used to produce scaled-up quantities of cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Argonne’s lithium-ion battery technology will be commercialized by chemical company BASF under a licensing agreement announced on June 3, 2009.
Photo courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory
