Dear all,
Further progress worldwide on securing critical materials supply: the EU Critical raw materials act (EU) as well as an agreement between Australia and USA on climate, critical minerals and clean energy (Reuters) along with an insightful report on critical materials (Lazard), a paper on necessary financing and faster permits for new EU mining projects (Mining.com), a DRC initiative to lower China stake in a Congo copper, cobalt venture (Mining Weekly) and 2 projects to recycle and recover rare earth in the US (Science News) and in the UK (Power Technology).
Great news from the scientific front as well: graphene anodes for faster charging of lithium-ion batteries at Western Michigan University, calcium batteries with long life cycle at Tohoku University, a more stable qubit candidate for quantum computer at QuTech, manganese palladium as a compound for energy-efficient data storage at Stanford University, nanoparticles coated sponges to remove and recover heavy metal from contaminated water at Nothwestern University and machine learning used to predicting buildings’ material properties in Science Direct.
Also we selected 4 sustainability initiatives: European countries planing to make the North Sea a renewable energy powerhouse, Cities across Europe giving biowaste a second life, Using solar energy to extract moisture from the air and turning it into clean and safe drinking water as well and a US government $251 million fund to expand CO2 transportation and storage infrastructure and reduce CO2 emissions from power generation and industrial operations.
Finally 16 of our Start Up alumni were in the news this month: some partnerships announced or ongoing (CARBIOS - France with Citeo, GRAPHENEMG - Australia with Rio Tinto, QUANTUM VENTURA - USA with BrainChip, TWELVE - USA with Etihad Airways, UBQ MATERIALS - Israel with Orangebox), a few interviews (CUBERG - USA, FLUENCE ANALYTICS - USA, MATERIALS ZONE - Israel), an award (UBIQD - USA), and to finish a lot of interesting press articles as usual (BEFC - France, CompPair – Switzerland, CUBERG - USA, EH Group – Switzerland, EIFHYTEC - France, GRAPHENEMG - Australia, POLYSPECTRA - USA, Sepion Technologies – USA, TWELVE - USA, Zeta Energy – USA).
