What Happened?
Waltham, MA-based SolidEnergy Appointed Qichao Hu as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
SolidEnergy was founded in 2012 during the turmoil of the lithium battery industry meltdown. Its mission is to power people`s lives, whether they are communicating with loved ones on a phone or driving with family in an electric car. SolidEnergy revolutionized portable energy storage with the introduction of the “anode-free” lithium metal battery in 2014. SolidEnergy`s two material platforms, dual-layer electrolyte and ultra-thin lithium metal anode, provide transformational energy density and safety across all rechargeable lithium batteries and can be seamlessly integrated into existing Li-ion manufacturing capability. The final applications include drones, watches and wearables, smart phones, and electric cars.
About the Person
Dr. Qichao Hu, founder and CEO of SolidEnergy Systems. He graduated from MIT with a BS in Physics in 2007, and Harvard with a PhD in Applied Physics in 2012. During his PhD, he left Harvard but still remained a student and joined the renowned Prof. Donald Sadoway`s research lab at MIT to work on next generation electrolyte materials, and invented the "anode-less" battery design. He founded SolidEnergy Systems in 2012 to commercialize the "anode-less" battery idea and was named Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy that year.
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