"Nuclear energy is a cleaner, better source of base load energy that you need for African industrialization and also [to] provide long-terms energy security for Africans. If we have to work with all parties to seek exemptions so that we can get Russian companies that have some of the best technologies in nuclear energy [...] we should be able to use that," he says.
"The pattern of always relying on others to come drive that where Africans are really not playing a big role - that is a problem," he states.
"It can be an office desk, a wall, a floor tile... it can take any form," Hamilton explained.
Another application the battery tech can be useful in is cellphones by combining existing lithium-ion batteries and the post-lithium invention, so as "not to disrupt the existing cellphone market".
"If you had a cellphone that was actually constructed out of a solid-state battery, and you wanted to charge your phone up quickly, you just charge it for a minute, and then that battery, which is the actual housing of the phone, will in turn charge your internal lithium-ion battery. Or keep it charged once it is fully charged," Hamilton suggests.