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Zinc Matrix Appoints Adamson
Zinc Matrix Power of Camarillo, California, has appointed George Adamson, Ph.D. as vice president of product development. He will help commercialize the company's silver-zinc rechargeable battery technology.
Most recently, Adamson was head of Virtic LLC in Henderson, Nevada. Previously, he was the vice president of research and development at Valence Technology Corp. where he launched Valence's first three mass-produced product lines.
As senior research scientist for Zinc Air Power Corp., Adamson directed an electrochemical research and catalyst testing program to develop a commercial bi-function air cathode. He instituted a new cathode testing program to improve manufacturing and testing controls, resulting in a 70% performance increase and 75% reduction in raw material cost per electrode.
Adamson holds three U.S. patents and has seven more under application. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Riverside.
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