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December 04, 2017

Jay Whitacre Awarded $50K Energy Award for Creating Eco-friendly Battery

By Amanda King

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Jay Whitacre, director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, has been awarded the 2017 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy for creating the first mass-produced, low-cost, eco-friendly battery called the Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI™).

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