Nickel–zinc battery

Today's guest has spent more than three decades commercializing advanced materials across semiconductors, solar, and energy storage.

Todd Hickenbotham is CEO of ZincFive, a company building nickel zinc battery systems for immediate power and mission-critical infrastructure.

What I found especially interesting about Todd's story is the pattern running through his career.

Technologies often end up creating their biggest value somewhere very different from where people originally expected.

Um, and as we, we've already talked about, so you, you didn't come into batteries as an electrochemist.

You came in as someone who just knew how to commercialize advanced materials.

What did that perspective, I guess, help you specifically see in nickel zinc?

Yeah, I think two things, and it, it's two sides of the coin from, from my standpoint.