Company Profile
Redox Engineering
was founded in order to pursue the advanced development of implantable batteries
and, more specifically, of electrochemical capacitors (referred to as
supercapacitors, ultracapacitors and by several other names in the power source
industry). A 50 kW prototype
super capacitor was built with bipolar electrode structure and tested before the
effort folded due to inadequate funding. The company continued consulting
activities in the area of batteries for oil well logging and the organization of
battery seminars.
The
First Battery Seminars
organized by Dr. Marincic were held in the Boston area, one on all primary batteries
in 1978 and one on lithium batteries in 1979. Dr. Wolsky joined the seminar
activities in 1983 when the seminars were moved to Florida.
This Super
Capacitor
Seminar was
started in 1990 and ran jointly for 12 consecutive years until Dr. Wolsky’s
participation in this seminar ended in 2002. The activity seems particularly
invigorated since the initial marketing of Honda and Toyota cars,
Nissan trucks and the prospect of the introduction of the US Freedom Car, all
with hybrid energy storage power sources involving electrochemical capacitors.
With Dr. Marincic
as the organizer, this, the original Super Capacitor Seminar, shall continue to serve
as a forum for the annual review of progress in this exciting area of
electrochemical engineering and advanced transportation technology.
Founder Profile
 Dr.
Nikola Marincic
has earned both an Engineering Degree and a Doctorate Degree in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. His post-doctoral
studies in the kinetics of fuel cell processes were with Prof. B. E. Conway at
the University of Ottawa, Canada.
He
spent seven years at Duracell bridging the gap between research and the production
of alkaline batteries before forming the engineering group at GTE Laboratories.
The main results of the GTE engagement were the first lithium implantable
pacemaker battery and the largest primary battery ever built, 300 kWh, for the US
Air Force ICBM System. Both these products were based on the lithium/thionyl
chloride battery system and were carried through to the production stage.
Dr. Marincic founded Battery Engineering, Inc. in order to meet the needs for
high temperature batteries in oil drilling and in special military applications.
The company operated profitably for 14 years and was eventually sold to Hitachi Maxell of
Japan.
Dr. Marincic has
published over 30 scientific and technical papers and has 29 battery related US
patents.
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