Commonwealth Fusion: nuclear fusion breakthrough?
Commonwealth Fusion Systems spun out of MIT in 2018. The company is based in Massachusetts, has 165 employees and made headlines in November-2021 as it raised $1.8bn in Series B…
24M: semi-solid battery breakthrough?
…commonly N-methyl-pyrrolidone. As it evaporates, a thin layer remains, including the active materials and a ‘binder’ that acts as a glue. A common binder is polyvinylidene difluoride. The first drawback…
Boston Metal: molten oxide electrolysis of steel?
Boston Metal is a private company, spun out of MIT in 2012, developing “a revolutionary one-step process to decarbonize steel production using clean electricity”, around 4MWH/ton of steel. This data-file…
Verdox: DAC technology breakthrough?
…to cart Verdox is a spin-out from MIT, founded in 2019, which raised $80M in February-2022, to develop an electro-chemical DAC system. In February-2022, Aluminium-producer, Hydro, also invested a further…