Landsdowne Labs Awarded Competitive NSF Grant to Develop Novel Battery Coating

Landsdowne Labs, LLC, a spinout from the laboratories of MIT and Harvard scientists Drs. Robert Langer and Jeffrey Karp, has been awarded a $256,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further develop and design a novel battery coating to help prevent injury and reduce risk to the thousands of children who ingest batteries each year. “Every year, thousands of children swallow ‘button batteries’ —small, high density, coinlike batteries increasingly used in consumer devices,” said Melissa Fensterstock, the Landsdowne CEO. “Too often, the swallowed batteries cause injury to children’s internal organs, and, in some cases—death. Read more >>