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Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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MIT team calls initial performance results of magnesium-antimony liquid metal battery “promising”

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In July 2011, LMBC, which has France-based Total and Bill Gates as investors, secured the rights to key patent technology invented by Sadoway and Bradwell. Sectioned Mg||Sb liquid metal battery operated at 700 °C showing the three stratified liquid phases upon cooling to room temperature. The cell was filled with epoxy prior to sectioning.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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IEEE FRANCES E. CHAN MIT “For pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the fields of space and terrestrial optical communications and networks.” KAHN Corporation for National Research Initiatives Reston, Va. IEEE EDISON MEDAL Sponsor: Samsung Electronics Co. , VINCENT W.S.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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The utility.will get a Ford plug-in hybrid vehicle by the end of this year and as many as 20 by some time in 2009 to test their durability, range and impact on the power grid, said Susan M. But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). By partnering with these two industries.

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