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…