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Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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Liquid metal battery company Ambri raises $35M in Series C

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Ambri, developer of Liquid Metal Battery grid-scale energy storage technology, closed a $35-million Series C equity financing. The energy is stored in the liquid metals that want to react with one another but can do so only by transferring ions across the electrolyte, which results in the flow of electric current out of the battery.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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The US Department of Energy is awarding $106 million in funding for 37 research projects selected in the second round by the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Of the lead recipients, 24% are small businesses, 57% are educational institutions, 11% are national labs, and 8% are large corporations.

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Univ. of Maryland researchers using modified Tobacco Mosaic Virus as template for Li-ion electrodes

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Using TMV, the researchers can greatly increase the electrode surface area and its capacity to store energy and enable fast charge/discharge times. The technology that we have developed can be used to produce energy storage devices for integrated microsystems such as wireless sensors networks. —Reza Ghodssi.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. The need for large-scale electrochemical energy storage as a grid-stabilizing source of demand disappeared. Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab. And this could come from behind-the-scenes use cases for robot manipulation, in warehouses, retail stores, food preparation, and manufacturing. In short, I’d bet that any decent university or corporate robotics lab with a similar budget and an active PR team would be able to pull this off.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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economical to store or transport. Such natural gas contains energy. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste. operates at room temperature, is more energy efficient, and less. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will develop a. Electron Energy. Corporation. Ceramatec, Inc. Technology.

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