New Iridium has achieved a major technical milestone by demonstrating production of 1kg of plant-based acetic acid from corn ethanol (Figure C). This was accomplished using a custom-built irradiated bubble column photoreactor (Figure A) with a theoretical capacity of 1 metric ton per year. Figure B and video show the bubble column photoreactor in action.…
PHOTOCATALYSTS UPCYCLE CO2 INTO COMMODITY CHEMICALS – A new process uses light instead of heat to produce chemicals – saving energy and using up captured CO2 in the process Highlight: Finding sustainable uses for captured CO2 is the challenge taken up by New Iridium. The company has developed a new photocatalysis platform that can efficiently…
The National Science Foundation has awarded Prof. Miyake, New Iridium’s co-founder, a three-year, $1.8 million grant to launch the Center for Sustainable Photoredox Catalysis, which will design chemical manufacturing processes harnessing light energy and utilizing readily-available materials as catalysts. Miyake will serve as the director and lead a multidisciplinary team of 12 other researchers from…
Excerpt: Congratulations to the five winners of the second EPIC Prize Pitch Competition! Hosted in New Orleans at the DOE Small Business Forum and Expo, eight startups took to the stage to pitch their clean energy technologies to four industry experts and a diverse audience of investors, government officials, national labs, and small businesses. Each…
Title: A photocatalytic platform for CO2 utilization Excerpt: As more and more CO2 is finding its way into carbon-capture systems instead of the air, the demand for new technologies that actually utilize CO2 is also rising. A new photocatalysis platform developed by New Iridium (Boulder, Colo.; www.newiridium.com) can efficiently convert CO2 into high-value chemicals using…
New Iridium was selected among the 12 finalists for The 2023 Nature Spinoff Prize. The Spinoff Prize is an award for early stage university spinoff companies from around the world. It gives visibility to academic entrepreneurs and their companies and helps them secure future investment. Excerpt: New Iridium is decarbonizing the chemical industry using light-driven…
New Iridium was awarded $1M NSF SBIR Phase II grant to advance its photocatalysis platform to produce at low-carbon chemicals at lower cost the today’s incumbent processes. Read More
The Braskem-New Iridium partnership focuses on CO2 conversion via photocatalysis, the startup’s expertise, which is an innovative solution based on the use of light sources (e.g., LEDs) and CO2 from industrial emissions in combination with low-cost raw materials. In the early phases of development, the technology creates versions of chemical products with lower carbon footprints and the…
New Iridium was crowned the winner of the Environment Track at Hello Tomorrow Global Summit that took place in Paris from March 8-10, 2023. 70 finalists were selected out of about 4000 applicants around the world to deliver a 3-min pitch. Dr. Lim presented his vision on how photocatalysis can revolutionize the chemical industry by producing…
New Iridium’s photosynthesis-inspired photocatalysis technology was featured in a short film by RE:TV. Powered by light, New Iridium’s solution is inspired by Nature to upcycle carbon dioxide into high-value chemicals via carbon-negative processes. About RE:TV: At RE:TV, we highlight some of the inspiring innovations and ideas that are emerging in response to the climate and biodiversity…