Dr, Richard Kaner, Phd- Ucla Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Materials, Science and Engineering: Every day we are surrounded by household items that are powered by lithium Ion batteries, including your cell phones, and your laptop computers. If a lithium-ion battery gets shot off, the energy gets released suddenly causing temperature to rise rapidly hundreds of degrees in milliseconds leading to the battery to catch on fire. Take the electric cars for example; there are thousands of lithium-Ion batteries that make up the battery pack. If they all catch on fire at the same time, the explosion is massive. They are so much concern about the lithium-ion batteries igniting that the U.S. has banned transporting them in cargo and passenger flights. Andreas Hintennach - Ph.D. Daimler-Mercedes Benz, Global Head of Battery Research: 3 years ago, we challenged Nanotech Energy to provide us the safest energy battery chemistry, non-flammable, and extremely safe. Dr Ja