Why, IMHO, no reputable company will sign a license:

 

1.  The EEStore product is not new. Each and every one of the "independent third party tests" shows no advantage over products ten years old.they seem to be ignorant of the competition.

 

2. The EEStore product is not cheap. Any elementary evaluation of the process DW uses, would reveal that the process costs are 10-20 times what competitive costs are. 20 steps are not cheaper than 3. Silly, off-hand comments become the basis of "evidence".  My favorite: "Barium Titanate is cheaper feed stock than Aluminum, so the EEStore product will be only 10% of the cost of Aluminum Electrolytics".   Really?

 

3. They are trying to break into a mature commodity market. The capacitor market may seem attractive, but dozens of suppliers are now down to 6. What sold for 20 cents 10 years ago, is now less than a cent.

 

4. No volume user will consider a new technology. No qualification engineer will waste his time, or reputation, with a new, and unproven technology. Why risk your reputation on replacing known with unknown?

 

5. The polymer/ceramic technology does not have a good reputation. The once intriguing product/process is no longer that. There are a few papers that have shown the peculiar failure modes of CMBT/polymers. It has been reduced to being a buried capacitor layer inside 1cm square modules.

 

6. The EEStore facility is hardly a bargain. It may be interesting to those not familiar, but as is seen in the video, it really is a lab-size facility. Every "top-tier" company is way beyond that. 100 grams/day just does not qualify. The scaling up of a chemical process is difficult. Imagine, for example, the thermal difference between a 1 liter environment and a 1000 liter one. Just the introduction of a minor reactant, gets crazy.

 

7. The practical cost of acquiring it is enormous: DW's business acumen may not be the best. A lab gets away with a lot more then a big name, not the least of which is environmental impact.

 

8. IT is not clearly defined. As much as they would like to claim dominance, "it ain't necessarily so". The polymer/ceramic dielectric is 25 years old. There are over a hundred  patents on it. The original inventors, (Sanmina,  I think) was pretty aggressive about protecting it. DuPont and 3M are not timid in protecting their product.

 

9. Reputation of EEStore is not great. The "cry wolf"  effect is not out of play here. The original patent garnered a lot of attention, and lots of effort was expended to duplicate it. But, decades of experience prevailed, an the general conclusion was, "it's not real". So, with diminishing credibility each year, they don't warrant much more than a push of the "delete" button. And then, would the licensee be subject to suits by the mis-lead?

 

10. Why bother? All  of the IT results so far, either have been measured wrong, or are within the range of "old stuff".  "Top tier" companies get "Great ideas" from outside every couple months. One that kept coming up was the Titanium capacitor, light, good K, versatile. (But poor reliability) speaking of which, EEStor has not done any reliability testing.