b'REFLEC TING ON THE PAST YEARS ACHIE VEMENTSTechnologies like the Advanced Electrolyte Model (top, bottom left) and High Temperature Irradiation-Resistant Thermocouples are made available to partners through licensing agreements.Advanced Electrolyte ModelHigh-Temperature Irradiation-Resistant In their effort to design and test better batteries, a number ofThermocouple well-known worldwide companies have licensed the INL- Idaho Laboratories Corp., a 40-year-old Idaho Falls company that developed Advanced Electrolyte Model (AEM), a computermanufactures, designs, calibrates and tests mineral-insulated simulation program designed to give fast information oncables, has collaborated with INL on a molybdenum-niobium properties of complex electrolyte formulations and how theythermocouple probe that can withstand temperatures of over can influence battery performance. Electrolytes are salts and1,250 degrees Celsius inside reactors and nuclear fuel rod solvents responsible for transporting electrically charged ionsassemblies for sustained periods of time. In addition to nuclear from one electrode to another, creating a flow of electricity inapplications, it also fills a niche for general industrial users that a battery. Different combinations deliver different results, andneed an accurate sensor for very high temperature applications laboratory testing is time-intensive and costly. AEM acts likesuch as kilns, jet engines, furnaces and pasteurization equipment.a virtual laboratory. With 40 solvents, more than two-dozen salts, and the ability to vary temperature, it offers millions of combinations, giving manufacturers the ability to weigh the consequences of different choices.11'