June 2005

May 19 , 2004 — The solid hydrogen storage system Stan and Iris Ovshinsky showed Alan at the Challenge Bibendum is just one of the many inventions to come out of their partnership.

Since the 1950s, Stan Ovshinsky has been a pioneer in the new field of disordered materials, which utilizes the properties of substances that don't have the ordered structure of a crystal, for instance.The Ovshinkys founded Energy Conversion Devices to develop disordered materials technology and to figure out how to use the technology to solve serious societal problems. They decided to concentrate their efforts on questions of energy production and storage. Hundreds of patents, five children and 45-years later, they are still at it….