The Coretec Group Inc. announced that Dr. Ramez Elgammal, Ph.D. joins The Coretec Group team as VP of Technology and will oversee R&D, intellectual property protection, application development, and volume manufacturing. Dr. Elgammal has a broad background in science, engineering, and entrepreneurship. He is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Tennessee where he manages a broad spectrum of projects in energy storage and energy generating devices including fuel cells, flow batteries, and lithium-ion batteries. He served as Director of New Applications for Sylvatex Inc. and prior to that he co-founded two clean-tech companies: Novoform Technologies (which develops catalysts for gas-to-liquid conversion and was acquired in 2014) and Saratoga Energy Research Partners (focused on electrochemical CO(2) conversion process to synthesize carbon nanomaterials for lithium-ion battery anodes).