Wolverine Energy creates new organic energy storage device

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 | Source: Concentrate

More and more technology is spinning out of the University of Michigan. One of the latest examples is Wolverine Energy Solutions and Technologies, which hopes to help make the energy industry more efficient and sustainable.

U-M Chemistry Prof. Ted Goodson III developed the new technology, a storage material that can be used in conductors. Typically that material is ceramic or some other non-biodegradable material. Goodson's technology is made of organic compounds that are far lighter in weight than existing materials.

"We have the technology," Goodson says. "Now we have to do the engineering."

And that requires capital, which requires a business plan and an executive team, and that's how Wolverine Energy Solutions and Technologies got its start last summer. The six-person team hopes to raise enough capital to build a prototype, perfect the technology and make it ready for mass production, a process that is expected to take at least a few more years.

Goodsoon expects the material to have several applications in sectors ranging from military to automotive to industrial to medical.

Source: Ted Goodson III, professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan
Writer: Jon Zemke