DOE Awards Eight Micro Battery Designs

(Washington) – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced awards for eight new designs for micro batteries, through its Micro battery Design Prize. This prize aims to accelerate the commercialization of these innovative micro battery designs, along with their integration into the existing technologies needed for clean energy manufacturing. In addition to automatically advancing to phase two of this prize, each selected project will receive an award consisting of $75,000 in a cash prize along with performance and safety testing services with DOE National Laboratories.