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Estonian startup UP Catalyst secures €2.09M; sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite from CO2

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million in grant funding secured earlier this year. UP Catalyst uses CO 2 -rich flue gases from heavy industry emitters as a feedstock for producing sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite, a critical raw material both in the EU and the US. separation of products and collection.

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UP Catalyst offering carbon-negative graphite for European battery supply chain

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According to the European Carbon and Graphite Association (ECGA), there are only two small mines in the EU—located in Austria and in Germany—but the mined grades are not suitable for energy storage applications. The process is powered by either wind, solar or hydro energy resulting in a carbon negative production line.

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Boulder Ionics raises $4.3M for high-throughput production of ionic liquid electrolytes for energy storage devices

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Boulder Ionics Corporation, a startup that has developed a novel, high-throughput, low-cost synthesis platform for producing ionic liquid electrolytes for use in advanced energy storage devices, completed a $4.3-million Boulder Ionics will be the first US manufacturer targeting production of ionic liquids in industrial volumes.

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Hydro-Québec and Technifin form partnership to license lithium titanate spinel oxide (LTO) technologies for Li-ion battery applications

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Michael Thackeray (currently an Argonne Distinguished Fellow at the US Argonne National Laboratory) while at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa. Zaghib currently serves as Administrator of the energy storage and conversion unit at Hydro-Québec. Its sole shareholder is the Québec government.

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Five Cool Tech Demos From the ARPA-E Summit

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South 8 swapped out the carbonate for some industrial liquified gases with low freezing points (a recipe the company won’t disclose). The company developed the cold plate under an ARPA-E grant and is now measuring the energy savings of liquid cooling through an ARPA-E program.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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