The startup Alsym Energy, co-founded by MIT Professor Kripa Varanasi, is hoping its nonflammable batteries can link renewables with the industrial sector and beyond.
Although the full makeup of Alsym’s battery is still under wraps as the company waits to be granted patents, one of Alsym’s electrodes is made mostly of manganese oxide while the other is primarily made of a metal oxide. The electrolyte is primarily water.