Participant in “Innovation Crossroads” is also participating in New Energy New York’s ChargeUp Accelerator
Coulomb Technology specializies in both sodium-ion and zinc batteries.
The sodium and zinc found in our blood and bones can also be used to fuel the next generation of cleaner, greener batteries. This is the fundamental idea driving Coulomb Technology, a start-up specializing in both sodium-ion and zinc batteries that was co-founded by Tim Vosburgh, Chief Executive Officer, and Subathra Rajendran, Chief Technology Officer.
“That’s the whole motive of Coulomb,” Rajendran said. “Zinc and sodium are there in our bodies. They’re an essential element, more abundant and non-toxic.”
Coulomb Technology, a member of the 2024 cohort of the “Innovation Crossroads” program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is one of seven companies participating in New Energy New York’s ChargeUp Accelerator, the nation’s premier accelerator program dedicated specifically to mentoring battery technology start-ups. It offers six months of both online and in-person curriculum, mentorship and workshops that hone startups, regardless of their statuses at the beginning of the program, into investment-ready shape.
With dual technology that can be customized according to user needs, Coulomb Technology has created sustainable, eco-friendly, and cheaper batteries capable of powering the smallest tools and phones or storing energy for entire grids.
“People are doing sodium. People are doing zinc. We, as a company, have both the technologies working in parallel,” Rajendran said. “Even with sodium, we have our own chemistry, especially phosphate-based sodium-ion batteries — which none of the companies in the U.S. had until now.”
Learn more about the progress the company has made in this article posted on the New Energy New York website.
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