Energy Related Devices (ERD) founded in 1987 is a research and development company focused on energy generating devices. ERD became a subcontractor to Manhattan Scientifics, Inc. (MSI) on January 21, 1998 through a contractual relationship. Manhattan Scientifics, Inc. was granted ownership of the fuel cell patents originally secured by ERD in exchange for capital resources to develop the micro-fuel cell® technology to commercialization (January 1998). In this contract ERD and MSI agreed that MSI would provide specific cash inputs and ERD in turn would reach specific research milestones every 6 months.

MSI is a publicly held company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the trading symbol MHTX; ERD is privately held. The contractual separation between ERD and MSI was conceived to help insure that business and scientific goals would not be at cross purposes and achieve a working synergism.

ERD has the capability to build, characterize, and test vacuum evaporated and sputtered thin films for fuel cells and solar cells. Additional capabilities include irradiating, ion milling, and etching materials to form the micro structures of the electrodes and devices. Many of the devices are the result of cross disciplinary research.

Our People :ERD currently has a crew of eight people working on the micro-fuel cell®: Sheila Hagedorn, Patrick Turner, Marc DeJohn, Luke Vazul, Flavio Tinaco, Nathan Anderson, Zachary Bradford, and Robert Hockaday.

Robert Hockaday is the principal investigator and innovator behind ERD. He was a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory staff from 1984 to 1994, when he took Entrepreneurial Leave of Absence to pursue full-time his life-long-dream – technologies for Energy Related Devices. During his tenure at Los Alamos, Mr. Hockaday was the principal investigator of projects involving the development, calibration and analysis of high-speed x-ray diagnostic experiments on seven underground nuclear tests. He also conducted plasma experiments at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, and Triniti Laboratory in Troisk, Russia.

Co-recipient of 1992 Award of Excellence for Significant Contribution to the Nuclear Weapons Program for the Lubbock Experimental Team (Los Alamos National Laboratory.)

Co-recipient of 1990 Award of Excellence for Significant Contribution to the Nuclear Weapons Program for the Centurion Team (Los Alamos National Laboratory).

Weapons Program for the Centurion Team (Los Alamos National Laboratory).

Co-Recipient of 1989 Distinguished Performance Award, ($1000 cash prize each) for the Bowie Team (Los Alamos National Laboratory).

Hockaday R., D. Grimmer, R. Schoenmackers, and V. Risser, Fuel Cells for Photovoltaic Systems Applications, New Mexico Solar Energy Institute, Box 3 Sol, Las Cruces, NM 88003, 1984

US Patent No. 4,673,624 Fuel Cell, June 16, 1987. Improvement patents pending

US Patent No. 5,482,568 Micro Mirror Photovoltaic Cells, Jan. 9, 1996

US Patent No. 5,631,099 Surface Replica Fuel Cell, May 20, 1997.