Landsdowne Labs CEO Lauds New “Button Battery” Packaging Law; Anticipates Safer Batteries

With the recent passage of “Reese’s Law,” aimed at safer packaging of small button batteries used in millions of electronic devices, “Congress has taken an important step toward protecting thousands of children from ingestion injury and death. The next step may well be to make the batteries themselves less harmful.” So says Melissa Fensterstock, the CEO of Landsdowne Labs, LLC, a Fairfield, CT startup that is developing a battery coating designed to avert potentially dangerous bodily reactions should a battery be swallowed. Landsdowne’s technology uses niobium, a mineral found in the earth’s crust, to deactivate batteries soon after they come in contact with aqueous environments in the esophagus, stomach or intestinal tract – thus helping prevent electrochemical burns. Landsdowne was recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant to further commercialization of its novel coating. Read more >>