UC Santa Barbara’s 24th Annual New Venture Competition

Leeta, a team comprising two materials Ph.D. students Kira Wyckoff and Linus Kautzsch, a Quantum Foundry Fellow co-advised by Seshadri and materials professor Stephen Wilson, developed a novel heating technology to manufacture high-quality battery materials domestically — a scalable microwave-assisted manufacturing process winning UC Santa Barbara’s 24th Annual New Venture Competition. "Because the domestic supply chain cannot meet demand for battery materials, Wyckoff said, manufacturers are forced to procure less reliable materials overseas, which result in lower performance batteries. Wyckoff and Linus Kautzsch, a fourth-year Ph.D. student co-advised by Seshadri and materials professor Stephen Wilson, developed a novel heating technology to manufacture high-quality battery materials domestically — a scalable microwave-assisted manufacturing process."

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