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 mhm

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Yes.

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My group focuses on physical electric
chemistry and surface signs. And

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about four or five years ago we got
interested in metal air batteries, the

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most energy dense type of battery
known if we're able to make metal air

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batteries have high cycle life highly
rechargeable, then you can see cell

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phones that last a month before need
to be recharged or laptops that can

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last a week. Metal air batteries are
the lowest fundamental cost of any

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known battery and because they use in
our case only earth abundant and

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domestically source herbal materials,
we can in principle do this at very

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low cost and very high sustainability.
So metal air batteries have been

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around a long time but they've
historically been not rechargeable. So the

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work that we did in my group about 4.5
years ago resulted in a spin out

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company from is you called politic
energy. We're now developing and

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commercializing our first product
which is a large scale rechargeable

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metal air battery. And we've also
gotten significant money from our P. E.

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To focus on an even more energy dense
metal air battery for more portable

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applications and transportation. An
entrepreneur is somebody who doesn't

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mind failing a lot. That's the court
and then of course there's somebody

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who likes to win, you have to have a
certain innate interest in taking the

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things that you've done in the lab or
in some other environment and taking

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them out to market. I'm the son of
alumni. I'm the son in law of alumni.

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I'm the husband of Tennessee alumna
and I'm the brother Evan is so taking

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the university from a big university
to university that's big and has big

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impact, is personally, extremely
important to me.