American Battery Technology Company (OTCQB:ABML) has tapped a new senior staff analytical chemist in former Tesla executive Mark McDaniel.
McDaniel has over 20 years of experience as an analytical chemist within the environmental and research fields.
At Tesla, McDaniel worked as a staff research scientist, where he was a founding member of the Gigalab team, the analytical chemistry laboratory within the Tesla Gigafactory that developed analytical processes for the assurance of quality within the battery manufacturing operations.
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He also worked at the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) as an environmental scientist in their Bureau of Water Quality Planning.
"The development and implementation of the analytical methods required to quantify the performance of these battery grade materials are not trivial, and Mark is one of the top experts I've ever worked with in this field,” American Battery CEO Ryan Melsert said in a statement.
"Mark was one of the first scientists I hired while at the Tesla Gigafactory, and he played a critical role in the development and establishment of the processes within the manufacturing of lithium, nickel, cobalt, aluminum, and copper battery metal products, of high energy density precursor and active cathode materials, and of onsite generated and refined high purity solvents.”
American Battery said that McDaniel will lead a team of scientists in the development and implementation of analytical procedures to quantify the quality and performance of materials within the lithium-ion battery recycling and primary lithium hydroxide manufacturing systems.
The team will be focused on developing and evolving battery metals extraction technologies that achieve lower environmental impacts, lower costs, and higher domestic US sourced content than conventional recycled and virgin sourced metals.
Reno-based American Battery has built a clean technology platform to provide a key source of domestically manufactured critical and strategic battery metals to help meet demand from the electric vehicle, electrical grid storage, and consumer electronics industries.
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