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NEO Battery Materials Appoints University of Toronto Professors Dr. Mohini Sain and Dr. Ning Yan to Scientific Advisory Board
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 29, 2021) - NEO Battery Materials Ltd. ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"NEO Battery Materials Appoints University of Toronto Professors Dr. Mohini Sain and Dr. Ning Yan to Scientific Advisory BoardVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 29, 2021) - NEO Battery Materials Ltd. (TSXV: NBM) (OTCQB: NBMFF) (\"NEO\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that the Company has appointed Dr. Mohini Sain and Dr. Ning Yan of the University of Toronto to the Scientific Advisory Board.About Dr. Mohini SainDr. Mohini Sain is an expert in the field of bionanotechnology, low carbon functional materials and next-generation low carbon transportation. Dr. Sain's reputation for research and development excellence in the automotive industry has awarded him the Endowed Ford Motor Canada PERDC Chair in Sustainable Materials. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Director of the Center for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing and former Dean of the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto.Dr. Sain is the author of more than 750 peer-reviewed papers with more than 450 peer-reviewed journal articles. With an extensive patent portfolio, he is world-renowned for his expertise in transforming research ideas into commercialization, establishing more than 50 technology transfers to industries, and patenting new technologies in collaboration with multiple top-tier industry partners such as Ford Motors, Hutchinson Canada, and TOTAL North America.He is currently a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.) and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Most recently, Dr. Sain has been elected a 2021 fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), one of the highest Scientific and Technological honour that a Canadian scholar can achieve. Starting with his transformative research on and scale-up of the wood-plastic composite (WPC), his pioneering work in materials engineering for low carbon materials has led to awards including the North American Entrepreneurship Award, the Plastic Innovation Award, and the Kalev Pugi Award for innovation and contribution to the industry.Dr. Mohini Sain commented, \"I am pleased to have joined NEO's Scientific Advisory Board and to push the Company into the next stage of commercialization through research and testing of the silicon anode materials. NEO's drive for sustainable battery materials, coating, and el...