Watt It Takes: Bringing Printable Batteries From Lab to Market
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Wood Mackenzie
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🗓️ 8 February 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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This week on Watt It Takes: Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits down with Dr. Christine Ho, the co-founder and CEO of Imprint Energy.
Imprint Energy is the company created to commercialize Christine’s invention: a tiny, zinc-based solid-state battery that can be screen printed. It’s being integrated into sensors and other tiny devices across the internet-of-things.
Christine’s father was an entrepreneur. She saw the highs and lows of that life. She followed his path -- and has faced her own similar tumult. Today, Imprint is licensing its technology to multiple manufacturers, and it’s printed hundreds of thousands of batteries.
This conversation was recorded at the Powerhouse headquarters in Oakland, California.
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| 0:45.0 | This week on what it takes this week on what it takes, inventing a new battery chemistry was challenging enough for Christine Ho. |
| 0:58.0 | Building a company around it was even harder. |
| 1:00.0 | I think the day that I was about to go to the hospital we were trying to get money |
| 1:04.7 | wired in from an investor to give birth. |
| 1:07.1 | Yeah exactly yeah so that morning I remember calling one of our investors and I was like |
| 1:12.3 | the money needs to be wired today because |
| 1:14.6 | because I might not be around yeah and I won't be able to confirm the wire because |
| 1:19.0 | I'll be in the hospital. |
| 1:20.1 | Welcome to what it takes an interview series produced by Powerhouse and Green Tech Media, I'm Stephen Lacy. |
| 1:27.0 | In this series we hear from founders and executives at the most influential clean energy companies, |
| 1:32.0 | their backgrounds their |
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