** Shares of battery technology solutions provider Solidion Technology STI.O up ~8% at $6.81 premarket
** STI awarded a grant by U.S. Department of Energy to scale up the synthesis of a carbon-nanosphere material
** The material will be used as anti-corrosive additive in molten-salts-based heat transfer fluids for advanced molten salt nuclear reactors
** Up to last close, stock down 81.8% YTD
(Reporting by Pranav Mathur in Bengaluru)
((Pranav.Mathur@thomsonreuters.com;))