Chrysalix Energy invests in fuel cell companies

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 73 KB
• Volume: 2005
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(05)70829-4

✦ Synopsis

SMC is a leading Korean supplier of Liion battery packs for portable electronic devices to OEMs worldwide.

SMC will work jointly with DMFCC on cartridge design and safety certification, will manufacture cartridges for DMFCC, and will also work with DMFCC on business development and marketing.

'SMC is a trusted supplier to the portable electronics industry, with quality manufacturing facilities in Korea and in China,' comments Dr Carl Kukkonen, CEO of DMFCC and also its parent company, Viaspace Inc.

DMFCC is a spin-off from Caltech/Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and the University of Southern California (USC), which co-invented the DMFC technology [FCB, April 2002]. The company recently unveiled a new plastic-based, prototype methanol fuel cartridge designed to be inserted into a laptop computer or similar portable electronic device [FCB, October].