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My group focuses on physical electric chemistry and surface signs. And
about four or five years ago we got interested in metal air batteries, the
most energy dense type of battery known if we're able to make metal air
batteries have high cycle life highly rechargeable, then you can see cell
phones that last a month before need to be recharged or laptops that can
last a week. Metal air batteries are the lowest fundamental cost of any
known battery and because they use in our case only earth abundant and
domestically source herbal materials, we can in principle do this at very
low cost and very high sustainability. So metal air batteries have been
around a long time but they've historically been not rechargeable. So the
work that we did in my group about 4.5 years ago resulted in a spin out
company from is you called politic energy. We're now developing and
commercializing our first product which is a large scale rechargeable
metal air battery. And we've also gotten significant money from our P. E.
To focus on an even more energy dense metal air battery for more portable
applications and transportation. An entrepreneur is somebody who doesn't
mind failing a lot. That's the court and then of course there's somebody
who likes to win, you have to have a certain innate interest in taking the
things that you've done in the lab or in some other environment and taking
them out to market. I'm the son of alumni. I'm the son in law of alumni.
I'm the husband of Tennessee alumna and I'm the brother Evan is so taking
the university from a big university to university that's big and has big
impact, is personally, extremely important to me.