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July 20, 2011 Cash needed to make innovative battery run at CSU When it comes to developing a new lithium-ion battery, Colorado State University's Amy Prieto has the juice. What she needs is the cash.

June 10, 2011 Officials tout CSU business model: Gardner, Bennet get a glance at new technologies Standing in a Colorado State University chemistry laboratory Friday afternoon, U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, asked what he can do to help startup company Prieto Battery get off the ground and bring its new battery technology to market.

June 1, 2011 Research Rock Stars: Storage Star Amy Prieto is in hot pursuit of the automotive industry's holy grail - a battery powerful and cheap enough to make all-electric cars the go-to clean energy vehicle.

May 20, 2011 Thinking Small Yields Big Boost In Power From a small laboratory on the second floor of the Chemistry Building at Colorado State University, Amy Prieto and her team of scientists are trying to lead the electric-car revival.

April 1, 2011 Future of Batteries May Be 3-D Wired Magazine profiles Prieto Battery, Inc.

March 31, 2011 Video Interview of Dr. Amy Prieto at the American Chemical Society's 241st National Meeting The 3-D Li-ion battery recharges in minutes, rather than hours, and could bring closer the day in which electric cars can recharge as quickly as gas-powered vehicles "fill it up" at the pump. The 3-D format could be the basis for more powerful, longer-lasting batteries for scores of other rechargeable electronic devices.

March 31, 2011 Fast-Recharge, Lithium-Ion Battery Could be Perfect for Electric Cars The next-generation battery, like next-generation TV, may be 3-D, scientists reported yesterday at the 241st National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

March 30, 2011 President Obama Sets Ambitious Goals to Reduce US Oil Imports While President Obama was speaking on energy and making a plug for research and development of electric car batteries, Amy Prieto happened to be presenting on that very topic at a conference three time zones away in southern California.

March 24, 2011 Amy Prieto named 2011 ExxonMobil Fellow by American Chemical Society Prieto, founder of one of Colorado State University's most prominent startup companies, Prieto Battery, is the one scientist chosen this year out of a national field.

April 23, 2010 Colorado State University's Amy Prieto, Co-Founder of Prieto Battery, to Talk at Nanotechnology Symposium April 29 Colorado State University’s Amy Prieto, a founder of Prieto Battery, a company that could revolutionize the hybrid/electric vehicle industry, will speak at the university’s Nanotechnology Symposium on Thursday, April 29.

December 15, 2009 Colorado State University Professor Launches New Company to Manufacture Inexpensive, Longer-Lasting Batteries with Higher Power Densities Colorado State University’s Clean Energy commercialization arm, Cenergy, has co-founded a new company that will manufacture batteries up to 1,000 times more powerful, 10 times longer-lasting and cheaper than traditional batteries - technology that could revolutionize the military, automobile and health care industries.

December 15, 2009 Inexpensive, longer-lasting batteries could revolutionize the military, automobiles, and health care Colorado State University's Clean Energy commercialization arm, Cenergy, has co-founded a new company that will manufacture batteries up to 1,000 times more powerful, 10 times longer-lasting and cheaper than traditional batteries - technology that could revolutionize the military, automobile and health care industries.