Firm co-founded by college wins innovation award at Shopper E…

Nanotech Power, the corporate co-founded by UCLA college members Richard Kaner and Maher El-Kady, has been named the Shopper Electronics Present 2022 Innovation Award winner as the one producer of non-flammable, graphene-based batteries.  

The annual CES is the world’s largest know-how tradeshow. This yr, Nanotech Power showcased their Organolyte graphene-based batteries which might make the most of the non-flammable electrolyte know-how that Kaner and his former graduate college students Brian McVerry and El-Kady patented. The batteries are significantly safer and better performing than the industry-standard, highly-flammable lithium-ion batteries that energy client electronics and electrical automobiles, however can all of the sudden catch fireplace or explode. 

Nanotech Power was fashioned in 2014 by Kaner, UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Professor in Supplies Innovation and a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and El-Kady, a analysis assistant professor of chemisty and biochemistry, together with physician-entrepreneur Dr. Jack Kavanaugh, with the aim of transferring their analysis on graphene-based vitality storage gadgets from the laboratory to {the marketplace}.