Raade started Halotechnics with an investment from Symyx and a license to its intellectual property.

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D. in mechanical engineering, Raade was working at a Silicon Valley materials science company called Symyx in 2009.

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In the lab Raade picks up paper cups containing globs of green and black glass, two promising mixtures that Halotechnics hopes eventually to use in a prototype energy storage system the company plans to bring online in 2015.

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