David Savastano, Editor07.10.12
For a printed electronics system to be fully functional, a source of power has to be included. Ideally, a printed battery will be thin, flexible, low cost and utilize non-toxic materials. It should also be customizable into any shape.
Imprint Energy, a start-up out of the University of California at Berkeley, is achieving all of these goals for its Zinc PolyTM printed batteries. The company’s energy dense batteries are also rechargeable, and are expected to have a lifetime comparable to Li-Ion counterparts.
Imprint Energy was co-founded by Brooks Kincaid and Dr. Christine Ho when they were graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley. Kincaid was pursuing his MBA at the Haas School of Business and Dr. Ho was pursuing her Ph.D. in the Materials Science and Engineering department when they connected in Haas's Cleantech to Market school program, which offered them an opportunity to develop a commercialization strategy for Dr.
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