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Zinc Matrix Power Announces Silver Polymer Batteries

June 26, 2001 by Jeff Shepard

Zinc Matrix Power Inc. (Santa Barbara, CA) announced its new Silver Polymer batteries, which are in routine use on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading floor. The rechargeable batteries allow hand-held wireless-network-connected trading computers to run all day. In addition to their use in Chicago, the batteries are in pilot testing by a brokerage on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor.

Mike Cheiky, the CTO at Zinc Matrix Power, commented, “The Silver Polymer battery has an energy-to-weight ratio comparable to today’s state-of-the-art rechargeable lithium batteries, but, since the silver and zinc reactants are much more dense than lithium and graphite, the Silver Polymer battery packs much more energy and power into a given size. Silver Polymer prototypes have achieved well over 2kW per liter.”

The company plans to roll out Silver Polymer technology for workgroup-based hand-held applications with consumer-oriented production to follow in 2002.