Massachusetts Institute Technology Materials and Elon Musk

Yet-Ming Chiang: Yet-Ming Chiang is a professor of materials science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to Guelph Mercury. Materials science is an unglamorous-sounding field, but Chiang is doing glamorous things. It the name of an American hero. His quest is much the same as Elon Musk — to bring cheap, reliable batteries to humankind and to free us from the tyranny of oil. But failure and second chances are an American tradition, and Chiang is back, this time with a new battery company called 24M. It uses all-new technology and, like A123, will put its factories here in the U.S. Check out this piece by Steve LeVine of Quartz for a great read on Chiang, his technology and his company. In 2001, he co-founded a battery research and manufacturing company called A123 Systems, which manufactured batteries in the U.S. Sadly, demand was inadequate; the company went bankrupt in 2012 and was sold. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.