Annual Awards Recognize the Most Innovative Companies and Projects
Addressing the World’s Most Urgent Challenges
24M Technologies, Inc. announced today that Fast Company has recognized its Impervio™ battery separator technology as a 2025 World Changing Idea. This annual recognition honors bold and transformative efforts that tackle the world’s most pressing issues — from fresh sustainability initiatives and cutting-edge energy developments to ambitious pursuits of social equity that help enrich the world.
“The World Changing Ideas Awards have always been about showcasing the art of the possible,” says Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. “We’re proud to recognize the organizations and leaders that are making meaningful progress on the biggest issues of our time.” This award follows Fast Company’s recent recognition of 24M as a 2025 Most Innovative Company.
24M’s Impervio separator is a breakthrough in battery fire safety, designed to address key risks like overcharging and internal shorts, the main causes of thermal runaway that leads to fires and costly recalls. By actively suppressing dendrites and enabling early fault detection, Impervio can prevent thermal incidents before they start. It enables next-generation lithium-ion and lithium-metal batteries to deliver enhanced performance and safety without sacrificing manufacturability across EVs, energy storage systems, consumer electronics, aviation, ebikes and more.
“As batteries become central to everything from electric vehicles to grid storage and personal devices, fire safety can no longer be an afterthought,” said Naoki Ota, President and CEO of 24M. “We’re proud to be recognized by Fast Company for our work to make batteries fundamentally safer. With Impervio, we’ve developed a game-changing technology that proactively helps prevent catastrophic failures for safer, more reliable clean energy. It’s innovations and ideas like these that move us closer to a truly sustainable and secure energy future.”
This year’s World Changing Ideas awards showcase 50 winners across 12 categories and 50 additional winners across industries, for a total of 100 outstanding projects. A panel of Fast Company editors and reporters selected the winners from a pool of more than 1,500 entries and judged applications based on their impact, sustainability, design, creativity, scalability, and ability to improve society.
ABOUT 24M
24M answers the world’s need for safe, affordable energy storage through its portfolio of battery technologies for electric vehicles, energy storage systems, consumer electronics and other battery-powered applications. By re-inventing today’s battery designs and manufacturing processes, 24M solves the critical, decades-old industry challenges of energy storage products and technologies – safety, cost, performance and sustainability – to accelerate the path to a better energy future. Named a 2025 Fast Company Most Innovative Company and with roots in MIT Labs, 24M is led by several of the battery industry’s foremost inventors, scientists and entrepreneurs. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a presence in Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.24-m.com.
ABOUT FAST COMPANY
Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with our sister publication Inc., and can be found online at www.fastcompany.com
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